[extropy-chat] 'History' and the fulcrum of 1945

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

Thanks for sharing this Hubert!

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:13:38 +0100, Hubert Mania <humania at t-online.de> wrote:
> Amara wrote:
> 
> > You are familiar with some ideas of Jung of the shadow-self? We
> > are most upset by those aspects that we recognize in ourselves
> > and our impulse is to reject it, sometimes violently. I think
> > that it was numbing to see the 'beast-within' expressed to the
> > magntitude that was expressed in WWII. Probably it rendered
> > psychologically mute a layer of people closest to the ground zero
> > of the horror, the next layer closest could maybe express a bit
> > more, and so on. In any case, if faced with something approaching
> > that kind of horror, you did whatever it took to not be there
> > again, war-avoidance, to the extreme.
> 
> Thank you, Amara, for your understanding.
> 
> I can give you a tiny part of the view as a post war german school boy....