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To: roguedolphin who wrote (89190)	10/26/2008 1:18:18 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

It's stupidity. The type of stupidity which results from what Carl Jung called "concrete thinking" typical of rigid bureaucratic personalities. " Concretism results in a projection of . . . inner factors into the objective data and produces an almost superstitious veneration of mere facts.["Definitions," Carl Jung Collected Works 6, par. 699.] [Concrete thinking] has no detached independence but clings to material phenomena. It rises at most to the level of analogy. Primitive feeling is equally bound to material phenomena. Both of them depend on sensation and are only slight differentiated from it. Concret-ism, therefore, is an archaism. The magical influence of the fetish is not experienced as a subjective state of feeling, but sensed as a magical effect. That is concretistic feeling. The primitive does not experience the idea of the divinity as a subjective content; for him the sacred tree is the abode of the god, or even the god himself. That is concretistic thinking. In civilized man, concretistic thinking consists in the inability to conceive of anything except immediately obvious facts transmitted by the senses, or in the inability to discriminate between subjective feeling and the sensed object. " [Ibid., par. 697.] .