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Helen's avatar

Pride - audaciously hidden in plain sight behind another of our current humanity-annihilating agendas.

You've put your finger on that very important point that it doesn't matter what the agenda is. They are all outlets for the same emotionally wounded response to ourselves, protected out there onto the world in a giant drama triangle.

I'm feeling thoroughly sick of it...

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A C Harper's avatar

Your fine essay set my mind off wandering... and after a browse through IMDB about the "Death Wish" films I came to the conclusion that the motivating force behind the pride and narcissism was not the concern about the environment (as you rightly point out) but a Death Wish.

Although there are many 'explanations' for the Death Wish the one that struck me was from https://listen-hard.com/clinical-and-counseling-psychology/death-wish-psychology/ . Amongst other interpretations was:

"From a Jungian perspective, the death wish may symbolize the need for transformation and rebirth, where the psyche seeks to shed old patterns and embrace new beginnings. This existential longing for a symbolic death and renewal is integral to individuation and personal growth."

Now while I don't think that Jung has all the answers it seems to me that the protestors' actions may be motivated by the desire for death (and destruction) as a means of renewal - professed as for 'the others' or for 'the environment' but mostly for themselves. Perhaps the desire for renewal is a reaction to how they have come to see their pre-protest selves, or the current state of the world?

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