Why is Modern Man so Weak and Powerless? - Carl Jung

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com members this channel is made possible by the support of our members many believe that the most important social divide in the west today is between the political left and right much of the discourse in the corporate and Independent Media revolves around this battle and many believe the outcome of this battle will have existential ramifications for the future of the west but is this political conflict acting as a distraction from the true divide that shapes a society that being the age old divide between the rulers and the ruled in this video we argue that the power disparity between the ruling class and the citizenry has reached such pathological levels that a form of slavery is emerging this slavery is fueled by a ruling class that suffers from a pathological condition Carl Yung called psychological inflation and a citizenry that has become too Weak and Powerless to resist the growing corporate and state takeover of almost every aspect of life helplessness and weakness are the Eternal experience and the Eternal problem of mankind wrote Carl Young Decades of research led the American Psych ologist Susan Fisk to conclude that men and women have five core social motives that are essential to psychological and social well-being these include the need to belong the need to understand ourselves other people in the world around us the need for self-enhancement which is the ability to cultivate a positive self-image the need for trust whether it be trust in other people or in the effectiveness of social institutions and finally the need for control autonomy and competence over the course of our life most of these needs require the possession of personal power for power is not merely the ability to control others it is also the ability to shape and influence the course of our life or as the philosopher Bertrand Russell stated power is the production of intended Effects Power therefore is necessary for self-enhancement and for attaining the goals that can improve our life furthermore as all social relations are structured by dynamics of power power or the lack thereof affects our ability to form healthy relationships in his writings Frederick Douglas the escaped slave turned social reformer emphasized that what distinguishes the slave from the free man is the level of power each possesses in his book my bondage and my freedom Douglas defined the slave by the utter powerlessness they have to decide their own destiny he also notes that we have a natural aversion to powerlessness we we are attracted to the powerful and unless we have been psychologically broken we aspire to power in ourselves or as Douglas rights a man without force is without the essential Dignity of humanity human nature is so constituted that it cannot honor a helpless man although it can pity him and even that it cannot do long if the signs of power do not arise a free Society provides individuals the opportunity to cultivate the power required to sculpt a good life to enhance well-being and to cultivate healthy relationships most Societies in history however have only granted this opportunity to members of certain classes races or ethnicities as the institution of slavery reduced millions of our ancestors to powerless agents of a master's will slavery writes the historian Orlando Patterson has existed from before the dawn of human history right down to the 20th century in the most primitive of human societ ities and in the most civilized there is no region on Earth that has not at some time harbored the institution probably there is no group of people whose ancestors were not at one time slaves or slave holders while the West has done away with the institution of chatt slavery where the slave is the personal property of a master we are descending into a form of State slavery state slavery or what amounts to totalitarian rule occurs when the state gains total control over the lives of its citizens and rids them of the autonomy to create a life of their own choosing under State slavery citizens are limited in their movements spy on constantly free speech is abolished descent is not tolerated and to fund the massive State apparatus that is required to maintain these suffocating levels of control wealth is extracted either through forced labor direct taxation or the indirect taxation of an inflation of the money supply the state slave of totalitarianism creates a citizen who approaches the utter powerlessness of the chatt slave while elevating the ruling Elite to the position of Masters during covid most western states implemented totalitarian controls and while many of those controls have been walked back the increasing power divide between the ruling class and the average citizen is setting the stage for this form of Slavery to reemerge in a more permanent form Carl Yung suggested that one of the primary factors that contributes to the rise of totalitarianism is a psychological inflation among the ruling class psychological inflation is an extension of the personality or more specifically of one's ego Beyond healthy limits or as young explains psychological inflation occurs when the ego has appropriated something that does not belong to it the psychologically inflated individual identifies with an unrealistic self-image that leads them to to believe they are somehow better stronger wiser or more powerful than they really are and as young explains a very common instance of psychological inflation is the humorless way in which many men identify themselves with their business or their titles in the political corporate and Military realm where those who control the levers of state power reside identifying with one's title is extremely common whether it be a CEO of a large corporation president of the United States chief medical advisor chairman of the board speaker of the house or Secretary of Defense titles make the man in the upper echelons of power tied to these titles are immense powers that are not a product of the individual who holds the role but a product of the institutions resources and historical legacies that support the role if an individual comes to identify their self-image with one of these titles they may come to believe that the power associated with their role resides within themselves rather than being a product of the social constructs that support the role or as Yung explains the office I hold is certainly my special activity but it is also a collective factor that has come into existence historically through the cooperation of many people and whose dignity rests solely on Collective approval when therefore I identify myself with my office or title behave as though I myself were the whole complex of social factors of which that office consists or as though I were not only the bearer of the office but also and at the same time the approval of society I have made an extraordinary extension of myself and have usurped qualities which are not in me but outside me internalizing and identifying with the power of the state is what accounts for the psychological inflation of the ruling class and it leads in the words of Yung to an extension of the personality Beyond individual limits in other words a state of being puffed up in Volume 7 of his collected works Yung suggests that the apocryphal saying attributed to King Louie the 14th latat seoa I am the state the state it is me is the motto for such people the more a man in a position of power inflates his personality in this manner the more he suffers from what Yung called God almightiness he starts to believe that he is omnipotent that he is above the law that moral codes don't app apply to him and in the process he loses touch with reality or as Yung writes God almightiness does not make a man Divine it merely fills him with arrogance and arouses everything evil in him it produces a diabolical caricature of man and this inhuman mask is so unendurable such a torture to wear that he tortures others in order to maintain the belief in one's God almightiness members of the ruling class repress the person Al weaknesses and moral inferiorities that clash with their idealized self-image and according to the laws of human nature what is repressed has a tendency to be projected onto other people projection is the erroneous attribution of an individual's unconscious qualities to the environment or to another individual or group and projections serve as defense mechanisms that help an individual or group avoid facing the incompatible and disturbing contents of the psyche the the individuals toward which we direct our projection usually possess to one degree or another the traits we deny about ourselves or as young explains not that these others the victims of the projection Are Holy without blame for even the worst projection is at least hung on a hook perhaps a very small one but still a hook offered by the other person the victims of a ruling classes projections tend to be the men and women over whom they rule as such individuals to one degree or another possess similar weaknesses flaws and moral inferiorities to those in the ruling class this act of projection can help account for the superiority that the ruling class displays towards its subjects for when we burden other people with our flaws it is inevitable that we see them as inferior throughout history there are countless examples of psychologically inflated men in women justifying their exploitative dominance of another group as though it were for their own good among the slaveholders of the American South for example Orlando Patterson wrote almost all Masters genuinely believed that they cared and provided for their slaves and that it was the slaves who in the words of one Southern ex-slave owner had been raised to depend on others but what makes the psychological inflation of the ruling class even more dangerous is that most normal people today are suffering from its mirror opposite a psychological deflation a psych iCal deflation is a contraction of the personality where one loses touch with character traits and potentialities that are an important part of a healthy personality the mechanism that causes psychological deflation is similar to that of an inflation it occurs when an individual identifies with a social role that is too restricted to Encompass all the character traits that are needed to flourish Vladimir odesnik provides the following example in his book yung in politics the members of the pariah or lower classes or members of socially despised National or racial groups frequently identify personally with their socially defined status and roles the result is the atrophy of the individual personality which fails to develop beyond the limits imposed by the social role psychological deflation is no longer limited to those in the lower class for to identify as a normal member of society is to contract our personality and to lose touch with our Will To Power for the good citizen in a world approaching total State control is not powerful and self-reliant but obedient and docile and the more the state controls his life the more powerless he becomes and the more deflated is his personality like psychological inflation psychological deflation leads to projection but instead of projecting weaknesses and flaws when we deflate our personality we project the strengths that our constricted social role has led us to to deny when we disconnect from our need for power for example it becomes unconscious and primed for projection the most likely targets of this projection are strong political leaders powerful political parties or the all powerful institution of the nation state as in a world where the state is the most powerful institution these provide easy hooks to hang our repressed Will To Power or as the psychologist Marie Louise Von frons explains there's always been a tendency in human to project the uniqueness and the greatness of their own inner self onto outer personalities and become the servants the devoted servants admirers and imitators of outer personalities it is much easier to admire a great personality and become a pupil or follower of a guru or a religious prophet or an admirer of a big official personality a president of the United States or live your life for some military General whom you admire that is much easier than following your own star when we project our Will To Power onto members of the ruling class or the institutions or political parties they control a dangerous feedback loop is set in motion the projections of the deflated masses further empower the ruling class while the projections of the ruling class lead them to view the citizenry as increasingly weak dependent and in need of strong leaders to rule over them this feedback loop paves the way for the toal control of State slavery and as Yung writes the increasing dependence on the state is anything but a healthy symptom it means that the whole nation is in a fair way to becoming a herd of sheep constantly relying on a Shepherd to drive them into good pastures the shepherd's staff soon becomes a rod of iron and the Shepherds turn into wolves to escape from this dangerous feedback loop responsibility lies with the citizenry for the inflated members of the ruling class will never voluntarily give up control like the slave masters of old they believe they are of a different breed and that without their rule the citizenry would run a muck and Chaos would ensue many in society have become so deflated so weak and psychologically fragile that they crave control by the state but for those of us who have not been psychologically broken it is up to us to take the steps necessary to counter the rise of State slavery one way to do this is to recognize our need for for power and to cultivate it if we are deficient we can cultivate personal power through learning and mastering skills strengthening the body setting goals and working toward them or emulating powerful Role Models these steps will help counter the effects of psychological deflation and the fewer psychologically deflated men and women in a society the fewer who participate in the feedback loop of mutual projections that empowers the ruling class and disempowers the citizenry in addition to cultivating our power we can also disarm the power of the ruling class with humor and ridicule for humor is the Achilles heel of tyrants as they desire to be feared and respected not laughed at or mocked laughing at those who strive to control us shatters their Aura of invincibility and reveals them as the flawed Petty and morally inferior individuals they really are the use of memes comedy skits and satire can highlight the absurdity contradictions hyp Ry and Lies by which the ruling class operates furthermore humor and ridicule disarm a ruling class of their greatest tool of Oppression that being fear when we laugh at tyrants we show that we are not intimidated by them do not admire them and are not easy prey to their fear-based propaganda or as Yost muru explains we must learn to treat the demagogue and aspirant dictator in our midst with the weapon of ridicule humor is after all related to a sense of perspective put the demagogue statements in perspective and you will see how utterly distorted they are how can we possibly take them seriously or answer them seriously the demagogue relies for his Effectiveness on the fact that people will take seriously the Fantastic accusations he makes will discuss the phony issues he raises as if they had reality or will be thrown into such a state of panic by his accusations and charges that they will simply abdicate their right to think and verify for themselves in their defense against psychological attacks on their freedom the people need humor and good sense first become an Academy of ideas supporting member and access over 100 membership videos including the first video of our latest series on big Pharma and the big lie sign up for $6. 99 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