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Politicians are Jungian symbols, policies are facades
Politicians are Jungian symbols, policies are facades
In this way, King's words weren't just politically effective; they activated something primordial in our shared unconscious, calling forth the universal human longing for liberation that lies dormant in what Jung termed our "psychic inheritance." Figures like these distract us with promises of action and policy and change, but are actually living symbols, nothing more - A north star in the mutual sky by which to navigate our moral universe. If we are moved, angered, or incited in any way through the words or actions of “The President”, by the time any bill is signed or law is passed, the real change has already occurred - in the electric charge of millions of minds shifting in tandem, and in the subtle reorganization of our shared mythology.
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