harper and row the chalice and the blade

We cherish free-market capitalism, an economic orientation well-suited to our materialistic bent.

We espouse democratic ideals and are progressive in the sense that we expect the future to be better than the past. What replaced Communism as our “opposite”?Ĭonsider the major features of American society: We are a liberal, secular, ethnically diverse and pluralistic culture. cannot exist for long without some external threat carrying its shadow, and it didn’t take more than a few years before another “opposite” emerged. The latter collapsed in 1989, seemingly leaving the United States as the undisputed leader of the world. In the 1950’s the “opposites” globally were the capitalist West and the communist East, the U.S. But if there are not enough and such a war should break out, I am afraid it would inevitably mean the end of our civilization as so many civilizations have ended in the past but on a smaller scale.” If enough can do so, I think the situation will just hold, and we shall be able to creep around innumerable threats and thus avoid the worst catastrophe of all: the final clash of opposites in an atomic war. “I think it depends on how many people can stand the tension of the opposites in themselves. During one such tense time members of the Psychological Club in Zurich asked Jung if he thought there would be an atomic war. The last fifteen years of Carl Jung’s life were lived against the backdrop of the Cold War-that time in our global history when most of the nations of the world were aligned either with the “West” or with the “Communist bloc.” Intermittently throughout this time the people of the world held their breath as they watched confrontations between the United States and the Soviet Union heat up.

Harper and row the chalice and the blade