I've got Mars square Mars in a couple of weeks. It is time to own my own power and malevolence 🤣 Noted I was feeling irked (Mars) today by the liberal shadow, which projects its power and malevolence onto politicians (especially Tories), and which I'd say most of my friends partake in to some degree. They think it's insight.
You can spot the projections, because they attribute unrealistic powers to politicians and governments and business people, and assume bad faith - malevolence - on their part as the starting point in any 'analysis'. It's simplistic, like a comic book. There's no arguing with it, because it's a projection, and so seems utterly real to the person concerned, as Jung pointed out. This projection makes themselves the 'good guys', and they're not having that taken away from them. Or the 'conscious' guys. The counter-culture needs to own its Mars. Yes, we could all be concentration camp guards in different circumstances, as Jordan Peterson has claimed, and taking pleasure in it too.
DH Lawrence pointed out the liberal shadow 100 years ago. It found fertile ground in the counter-culture of the 60s, and persists, as polarised as ever, today. We are all in this together, it isn't us vs the capitalists etc: that goes nowhere.
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