Rinzai Did Nothing Wrong.

My optimism takes a hit each time I try to browse the Internet in search of arguments regarding anything of transcendental value. If I want to know the Metacritic score for some generic horror game, then I can find it in mere minutes. Yet if I aspire to find anything regarding what is Beautiful or Good or True, then instantly I’m met with a barrage of falsehood. Two examples that stand out most clearly both regard the gap between “subjective” and “objective” thought. Such crucial aspects such as feeling and morality, which ordinarily one would refer to as an absolute reality, (in practice even more so than in “thought”) have been reduced to “subjectivity” by therapists… and people actually follow this prescription without any indication of remorse or indignation. (Note how it’s “prescription”, not “description”, which we ’ ll get to later.) That this trend explains some of the more ridiculous assertions made by otherwise soft-spoken, sober people on the Internet would offer comfort on...

There is no shortage of contemporary dialogue about the villainy of narcissism, yet this only proves to be the case when the tradition of objective moral criticism has run dry and when psychology has filled the void. What there has not yet been sufficient conversation in addressing is that narcissism rarely is exclusively a personal phenomenon, since there are social forces which produce it, and psychology is one such force. Certainly NOT another narcissistic self-insertion for Ms. Gao . Egalitarian psychology, conspiring with politics, commits the most atrocities in this regard, since it is emblematic of the “leveling” that Kierkegaard described nearly two hundred years ago. What is a more barbaric rule than “treat all others with respect, though they’ve not earned it?” What is more repulsive as a style of parenting than to deny that one’s own child is special? Love must always manifest in love for the distinctions; it is hatred which aspires to subvert all difference and unify all th...

The fact remains that, if an action is *intrinsically* contemptible or vile, then it will be recognized as such by anyone with clear discernment. Those who will be most disgusted are not those most guilty but the ones most innocent. The Jungians suggested that this was because the innocent suppress their own repugnant tendencies. Yet even those who have become aware of such repugnant tendencies will feel disgust in seeing them incarnate in the flesh, for those will be the ones best armed not only to perceive them but to fight them. No: the Villain isn't always you. It is not you as individual. It is not even you as member of society. It is not your society itself. Not everything revolves around you. Neither is the Hero always you; that's just a goal to strive for. Why? It is because, while your mythology may be what Jung calls a "projection" of collective psychic forces, it remains a symbol with a meaning in **the World.** All peoples have mythologies they turn to in ...

For every brilliant idea, there appears to be a legion of impostors waiting to appropriate it to their private purposes. Such is the matter with the modern theory of "projection". The untempered propagation of this theory, well beyond the bounds of psychoanalytic practice, has resulted in another in a growing, endless line of neoliberal excuses that remain characteristic of postmodern life. Where everything is exoteric and available, it tends to be quite cheap in both availability and quality, for those unwilling to put in the effort to investigate the matter deeply tend to peddle it as something easy and, as such, destructive.   [ Don't forget to click the Link below for Coda .] Life is always difficult, and any ideology which seeks to burden it with undue ease can only lead to its becoming tragic. Flaws of character remain the province of the tragedy; philosophies of transformation, such as Jungian psychology, were aimed at self-improvement and perfection of the Soul, w...