{"id":38375,"date":"2018-09-27T07:24:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T12:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38375"},"modified":"2018-09-27T07:24:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T12:24:04","slug":"the-pivots-to-the-coming-era-can-already-be-discerned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38375","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Pivots\u2019 to the Coming Era Can Already Be Discerned"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"The \u2018Pivots\u2019 to the Coming Era Can Already Be Discerned\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2018\/09\/26\/or-41460.jpg\" alt=\"The \u2018Pivots\u2019 to the Coming Era Can Already Be Discerned\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"date\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/09\/26\/pivots-coming-era-can-already-be-discerned.html\">The \u2018Pivots\u2019 to the Coming Era Can Already Be Discerned<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>In his autobiography, Carl Jung tells of \u201ca moment of unusual clarity\u201d, during which he had a strange dialogue with something inside him: In what myth does man live nowadays, his inner-self enquired? \u201cIn the Christian myth: Do\u00a0you\u00a0live in it?\u201d (Jung asked of himself. And to be honest with himself, the answer that he gave was \u2018no\u2019): \u201cFor me, it is not what I live by.\u201d Then do we no longer have any myth, asked his inner-self? \u201cNo\u201d, Jung replied, \u201cevidently not\u201d. Then what is it, by which you live, his inner-self demanded? \u201cAt this point the dialogue with myself, became uncomfortable. I stopped thinking. I had reached a dead end\u201d, Jung concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Many today, feel similarly. They feel the\u00a0void.\u00a0The post-war era \u2013 perhaps it is the European Enlightenment phenomenon, itself \u2013 that has run its course, people believe. Some regret it; many more are disturbed by it \u2013 and wonder what is next.<\/p>\n<p>We live in a moment of the waning of two major projects: the decline of revealed religion, and &#8211; simultaneously &#8211; of the discrediting of the experience of secular Utopia. We live in a world littered with the debris of utopian projects which &#8211; though they were framed in secular terms, that denied the truth of religion &#8211; were in fact, vehicles for religious myth.<\/p>\n<p>The Jacobin revolutionaries launched the Terror as a violent retribution for \u00e9lite repression &#8212; inspired by Rousseau\u2019s Enlightenment humanism; the Trotskyite Bolsheviks murdered millions in the name of reforming humanity through Scientific Empiricism; the Nazis did similar, in the name of pursuing \u2018Scientific (Darwinian) Racism\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018Pivots\u2019 to the Coming Era Can Already Be Discerned In his autobiography, Carl Jung tells of \u201ca moment of unusual clarity\u201d, during which he had a strange dialogue with something inside him: In what myth does man live nowadays, his inner-self enquired? \u201cIn the Christian myth: Do\u00a0you\u00a0live in it?\u201d (Jung asked of himself. 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