Christmas card from the American Friends Service Committee, As I was reading the February 28, 2025 newsletter of Friends Committee on National Legislation, the section about the Trump administration’s termination of foreign aid contracts stood out: The Trump administration announced it is terminating nearly 10,000 foreign aid contracts and grants, leaving only 1,200. This is … Read more
Reprinted from Medium 2/12/25, article by Lena Bloch “Carl Jung on the Psychology of Fascism” This is a well-known but seldom-read interview with Carl Jung on the psychology of fascism and why people are attracted to fascism. It is called “WILL THE SOULS FIND PEACE?” (“WERDEN DIE SEELEN FRIEDEN FINDEN?”) I am not discussing Jung’s … Read more
Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Individuation: Colonization or Decolonization of the Psyche? An Indigenous, Animist Inquiry Presenter: Dylan Martinez Francisco, Ph.D. Friday, January 24, 2025 7:00 pm Eastern (approx. 2-2 1/2 hours) Charlotte Friends of Jung I thought this event might be of interest to our group, because we ourselves may … Read more
A friend pointed me to this interesting commentary by Robert Reich. The Big Picture: How we got into this mess, and how we get out of it. Capitalism is compatible with democracy only if democracy is the dominant partner. It was dominant from 1933 until 1980. Then hyper-capitalism took over, and finally gave us Trump. … Read more
I came across an article on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who lived in dangerous times and is currently the subject of a movie that skews him as a heroic martyr espousing violence. Victoria Barnett is a leading Bonhoeffer scholar who offers a more realistic portrayal. Bonhoeffer didn’t choose to be a martyr. He simply tried, as many others did, to … Read more
A crucial component of getting myself right is candor and honesty about the socio-political situation and my place in it. There’s more analysis, judgment, invective, and blame out there (and I’m not even on social media, which may well be even worse! Avoiding this keeps me relatively sane – and obviously defines me as an … Read more