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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Ilaine who wrote (30427)5/23/2002 3:02:22 AM
From: LTK007  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Why must people, like yourself, make near constant. excusatory analysis for why people herd to evil. What about the Heroes and Heroines that stand up against the crowd and cry out, "This is Evil!"
What do they reveal about the crowd, and do they not give cause to question whether crowd action is excusable?
Carl Gustav Jung is very explicit in specifying the greatest mistake of his entire life.
In 1931 he gave a dissertation explaining the psychology of events like the rise of Nazism; and, he thus said it was an act trivializing what was actually occurring.
By 1932 he came to recognize his blindness, his blindness being, he said, his failure to realize the reality of evil.
It was from that point on that Jung took the view that evil was a real force, and not one to be excused.
Max
P.S. My mother said on several occassions, the failure to grasp evil is a failure to empathize, and to not have this ability to empathize reveals a deficient soul.
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