I read the following recently which resonated with me-
Carl Jung: “Since it is universally believed that man “is” what his consciousness knows of itself, he regards himself as harmless and so adds stupidity to iniquity. He does not deny that terrible things have happened and still go on happening, but it is always “the others” who do them… [However] [t]he evil, the guilt, the profound unease of conscience, the obsure misgiving are there before our eyes, if only we would see…Even if, juristically speaking, we were not accessories to the crime, we are always, thanks to our human nature, potential criminals. In reality we merely lacked a suitable opportunity to be drawn into the infernal melee. None of us stands outside humanity’s black collective shadow. Whether the crime lies many generations back or happens today, it remains the symptom of a disposition that is always and everywhere present–and one would therefore do well to possess some “imagination in evil,” for only the fool can permanently neglect the conditions of his own nature. In fact, this negligence is the best means of making him an instrument of evil…Harmlessness and naivete…lead to the projection of the unrecognized evil into the “other.”…What is even worse, our lack of insight deprives us of the “capacity to deal with evil.”
This is relevant to me as I consistently ignore Donald Trump thinking everyone else cannot be stupid enough to let him win the primaries.
