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Carl Jung: "The world hangs on a thin thread...."
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of Carl Jung's famous statement:
"The
world hangs by a thin thread, and that thread is the psyche of
man.... Nowadays, we are not threatened by elemental
catastrophes.... WE are the great danger. The psyche is the great
danger. What if something goes wrong with the psyche? And so it is
demonstrated in our day what the power of the psyche is, how
important it is to know something about it. But we know nothing."
(From "A Matter of Heart")
[Note:
when Jung says here, "Nowadays we are not threatened by
elemental catastrophes...." he means that the greatest threats
facing us are all human-caused (e.g., in his time, nuclear war; and
now additionally climate change, biodiversity loss, ocean
acidification, and other environmental catastrophes), and thus that
the greatest threats facing us are at their root problems of HUMAN
PSYCHOLOGY.]
I think you have arrived at the nub of it, and so it becomes a legit question to ask how much of one's personal health and sanity one should appropriately donate to the task of informing others of our predicament. I will confess that it is slowly turning the remainder of my life here to some sort of conscious penance/orgy in any given moment. The ethics of enjoying the pleasures this world allows whilst knowing our species-level psychosis is responsible for extinguishing it all in the near term future are beyond me and so I am left with the vague guilt and closeted gluttony. Be well brother.
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