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PART ONE: TAKE THE ORANGE PILL–Trumpocalypse Proves You Live in a Simulated Matrix
This part has its own page with both article and video forms. It is an exploration of the improbability and surreality of the Trump presidency so it has the least to do with mass psychosis of the four parts.
PART TWO: THE CULT OF THE ORANGE GOBLIN <<<WATCH THE VIDEO
A thorough exploration of the mass psychosis derangement syndrome of those who have drunk the orange Koolaide and fallen under the psychic scarecrow’s spell from the perspective of Jungian psychology, including Jung’s warning about psychic epidemics and mass movements.
Points I should have included in the video:
Here is the “Truth” Trump posted on his social media platform, Truth Social, where he says he is entitled to suspend the Constitution:
“Do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” Trump wrote in a post on the social network Truth Social and accused “Big Tech” of working closely with Democrats. “Our great ‘Founders’ did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!”
The whole idea of America was not to be ruled by a king and to have checks and balances to keep a would-be despot from seizing power. The founding fathers warned us that democracy was a fragile experiment that could fail if a despotic demagogue fooled voters.
From:
https://www.latimes.com/…/demagogues-constitution…
Less than two weeks after the start of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, George Washington wrote to his friend, the Marquis de Lafayette, on June 6, 1787, explaining that his critical purpose in attending the convention was to prevent a demagogue from gaining power in the politically unstable young nation and thus destroying it.
Washington described how he was pulled out of retirement by an urgent risk to the United States. “Anarchy and confusion” were threatening the security of the American people and the rule of constitutional law. But this was only half the danger.
The deeper risk, he wrote that early June, was that the political chaos created fertile ground for exploitation “by some aspiring demagogue who will not consult the interest of his country so much as his own ambitious views.”
Washington, of course, was not the only framer who viewed our Constitution largely as a bulwark against demagogues. In the surviving records of the speeches given at the Constitutional Convention, the word “demagogue” was used 21 times by the framers as they crafted the Constitution’s essential checks and balances against despotism and tyranny.
(End of L.A. Times Excerpt)
Voters in this country are on the verge of giving an Electoral College victory to a man who tried a coup to hold on to power and is explicitly telling you that he intends to suspend the Constitution and be a military dictator.
This is not time for “what aboutisms” related to Biden/Harris. Yes, Biden had some disastrous failures. Yes, Wokism is a motherload of stupid ideas. Yes, Harris said stupid things in 2019. Mass psychosis on the left version is more obnoxious, but the mass psychosis on the right is far more dangerous.
As a well-informed, lifelong Republican said in 2016 on why he was going to vote for Clinton,
“I disagree with Clinton on almost everything, but she’s within the normal range of being wrong.”
Trump is far outside the normal range of being wrong–he has explicitly announced his intentions to end democracy. Anyone voting for him or failing to vote for the only viable alternative will be complicit in ending America’s fragile, 240-year experiment with democracy.
Note: Parts Two-Four do not have article versions, what follows are quotes and images from the videos for reference purposes. The Intro to Part Two was scripted so that it does have a narrative form. The rest are notes for the videos.
History is the nightmare from which I am trying to awaken. –James Joyce
. . . the contemporary world and its newspapers present the spectacle of a gigantic psychiatric clinic . . . C.G. Jung 25
There is no hydrogen bomb in nature, that is all our doing. We are the great danger. Psyche is the great danger. C.G. Jung
From the Second Coming by W.B. Yeats
(slightly updated)
. . . Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with obese body and the combed-over head of a troll,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough, orange beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards the Capitol to be born?
As the elongating skull shadows of millennia of human history streak toward the event horizon of the election of 2024, it is an appropriate time to reflect on our species’ fatal tendency toward mass psychosis, a tendency now virally amplified by the obsession-promoting algorithms of social media. But, and this is a very big BUT,
it is necessary to see the current collective psychosis with double-sided shadow vision to see that is on the left as well as the right, and that the two sides of the insanity form a synergistic Folie à Deux, every bit as awful as a gag-inducing Joker musical sequel.
The maddening approach of another potentially Trumpocalyptic election has me rereading Volume 10 of Jung’s collected works, Civilization in Transition, which includes some writings that are now more than a century old and yet have eerie relevance to the present moment. Based on what he read in the dreams of his highly educated German patients, Jung was able to predict, twenty years before it actualized, the deadly mass psychosis of Nazism.
Rereading Jung’s words, which I underlined and highlighted when I first encountered them at age 20 in 1978, they still glow like fell runes on a gold ring cast into a fire.
Card #593 – The Path of the Sacred Highlighter
I don’t believe in sacred texts; for me, only the highlighter is sacred. When I read texts, I highlight what resonates with my inner truth sense. This is how I hope people will relate to the oracle — take what resonates with your inner truth sense and leave the rest. This is how I hope people will relate to inner and outer voices, to channeled material, to ancient or modern texts, to revered gurus, to sleazy politicians, to what claims to be the word of God, to everything, everyone and to life itself. Go with what is highlighted in your psyche as true, beautiful and significant. Never surrender your highlighter to someone else or to any sort of outside authority. You must always wield your own highlighter.
Same as with my words, take what resonates with your inner truth and leave the rest.
As Jung points out,
“One can perceive, think, feel, remember, decide, and act, unconsciously. Everything that happens in consciousness can under certain conditions also occur unconsciously.” (30)
To that list of actions Jung identifies as capable of occurring unconsciously I would add another:
We can vote unconsciously. Without knowing our personal shadow, we can vote for a personification of our collective shadow. When someone asked how Hitler manipulated the German psyche, Jung replied, “He didn’t manipulate the German psyche. He was the German psyche.”
Former Trump officials who warned Trump should not be president or even on the ballot:
Vice President Mike Pence
Defense Secretaries James Mattis and Mark Esper
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Mark Milley
National Security Adviser John Bolton
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coates
Chiefs of Staff 4-star Marine general John Kelly and Mick McMulvany
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
Kelly, who had previously refrained from discussing his time in the White House so openly, said in expansive interviews with The New York Times that Trump’s discussion of using the military against the “enemy within” — who, in Trump’s words included Democratic foes — pushed him to come forward. His comments come after several other prominent former administration officials, including those with military experience, expressed concern about Trump’s fitness for office.
“And I think this issue of using the military on — to go after — American citizens is one of those things I think is a very, very bad thing — even to say it for political purposes to get elected — I think it’s a very, very bad thing, let alone actually doing it,” Kelly said.
The former general held nothing back, arguing that Trump could fit the bill of a “fascist.”
“Well, looking at the definition of fascism: It’s a far-right authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy,” he told The Times.
“So, certainly, in my experience, those are the kinds of things that he thinks would work better in terms of running America,” he added.
Kelly went on to explain that Trump had said he wanted generals like those that Adolf Hitler had, a comment that Kelly found shocking and told the former president not to repeat.
In this Oct. 19, 2017 file photo, White House chief of staff John Kelly speaks during a White House briefing in Washington.
Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE
Kelly went on to explain that Trump had said he wanted generals like those that Adolf Hitler had, a comment that Kelly found shocking and told the former president not to repeat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09maaUaRT4M
From the Academy of Ideas
See how Trump spoke in 1987 and today–see the video in this article
Trump wasn’t always so linguistically challenged. What could explain the change?
The psychic individuality of the child develops only later after a reliable continuity of consciousness has been established. The fact that the child begins by speaking of himself in the third person is in my view a clear proof of the impersonality of his psychology. –Jung (all Jung quotes from Volume 10 of his collected works, Civilization in Transition.)
See Donald Trump saying the following as Third-Person in Chief.
“There’s never been a president like President Trump.” –President Trump
“Stay on point, Donald, stay on point. No sidetracks, Donald.” –-Donald Trump
“Nobody respects women more than Donald Trump.” –-Donald Trump
“Nobody has more respect for intelligence than Donald Trump.” –Donald Trump
“Trump, Trump, oh yeah, Trump.” –Trump
“China has total respect for Donald Trump and Donald Trump’s very, very large brain.” –Donald Trump
Jung defines Lévy-Bruhl concept of participation mystique as “a state of identity in mutual unconsciousness.” (39)
There is no country on earth where the “power-word,” the magic formula, the slogan or advertisement is more effective than in America. We Europeans laugh about this, but we forget that faith in the magical power of the word can move more than mountains. Christ himself was a word, the Word. We have become estranged from this psychology, but in the American it is still alive. It has yet to be seen what America will do with it.–Jung and in all following quotes unless otherwise indicates.
(Notice that the QAnon motto is the perfect, operational definition of what Jung called “mass man” and of any stampeding herd.)
Alienation from the unconscious and from its historical conditions spells rootlessness. That is the danger that lies in wait for the conqueror of foreign lands, and for every individual who, through one-sided allegiance to any kind of -ism, loses touch with the dark, maternal, earthy ground of his being.
Our fearsome gods have only changed their names: they now rhyme with -ism.
The world is still full of bête noires and scapegoats, just as it formerly teemed with witches and werewolves.
“They’re eating the cats! They’re eating the dogs!” –Trump during the presidential debate with Harris, making a debunked claim about Haitian immigrants.
The doctor in me refuses point blank to consider the life of a people as something that does not conform to psychological law. For him the psyche of a people is only a somewhat more complex structure than the psyche of an individual.
Moreover, I am not here to tell you what ought to be done. That must be left to those who always know what is better for other people.
From the Zap Oracle card: Choosing the lesser of two evils. Be wary of either/or propositions. The positive aspect is that this is an auspicious time to reconsider the choices; there are probably more than two options.
Sometimes, however, choosing the lesser of two evils is the best choice. For example, suppose there are two leading presidential candidates, and one is very, very, very dark grey while the other is medium to light grey. You could attempt to keep your conscience clean by choosing a third-party candidate who has no chance of winning but whom you think is nearly pure white. That’s a serious mistake, as it is a far greater moral urgency to prevent the very, very, very dark grey candidate from seizing power. In such a scenario, it is better to choose the lesser of the two evils who can actually win. And in case you don’t know, it’s been statistically proven that people who kept saying “republicrats, there’s no difference between the two parties” and virtuously voted for Ralph Nader in 2000 elected George W. Bush who brought us the war in Iraq instead of the not-quite-pure-enough for them, environmentalist Al Gore. It’s also been proven that people who voted for the green candidate in 2016 caused Hillary Clinton to lose the electoral college to Donald Trump. By voting green, they brought us orange.
It is selfish to want to preserve your purity and virtue by not being realistic about the nature of certain choices. As Taoist sage Deng Ming Dao says, “Never underestimate the value of a partial solution.” We don’t live in a world that always gives us a perfect alternative to choose. If you’re unwilling to use a product if it damages the environment in some way, you wouldn’t be reading this — you’d be in the woods trying to sharpen your stone axe.
Choosing the lesser of two evils is the right choice when perfection is the enemy of the good. Even if the good is grey-scaled and mediocre, it’s still better than a dark alternative.
The decidedly individualistic trend of these latest developments is counterbalanced by a compensatory reversion to the collective man, whose authority at present is the sheer weight of the masses. No wonder that nowadays there is a feeling of catastrophe in the air, as though an avalanche had broken loose which nothing can stop. The collective man threatens to stifle the individual man, on whose sense of responsibility everything valuable in mankind ultimately depends. The mass as such is always anonymous and always irresponsible. So-called leaders are the inevitable symptoms of a mass movement. The true leaders of mankind are always those who are capable of self-reflection, and who relieve the dead weight of the masses at least of their own weight, consciously holding aloof from the blind momentum of the mass in movement. [327] But who can resist this all-engulfing force of attraction, when each man clings to the next and each drags the other with him? Only one who is firmly rooted not only in the outside world but also in the world within. (Vs W quotes)
Trump partying with Jeffrey Epstein in 1992
In the Access Hollywood video, Trump tells Bush about a failed attempt to seduce Nancy O’Dell, who was Bush’s co-host at the time (circa 2005) of the recording:[17]
I moved on her, and I failed. I’ll admit it.
I did try and fuck her. She was married.
And I moved on her very heavily. In fact, I took her out furniture shopping. She wanted to get some furniture. I said, “I’ll show you where they have some nice furniture.” I took her out furniture—I moved on her like a bitch. But I couldn’t get there. And she was married. Then all of a sudden I see her, she’s now got the big phony tits and everything. She’s totally changed her look.[12]
Later, referring to Arianne Zucker (whom they were waiting to meet), Trump says:
I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful—I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.[12]
Back to Jung quotes:
What a distressing sight it was to see the whole of Germany heave a sigh of relief when a megalomaniac psychopath proclaimed, “I take over the responsibility!” Any man who still possesses the instinct of self-preservation knows perfectly well that only a swindler would offer to relieve him of responsibility, for surely no one in his senses would dream of taking responsibility for the existence of another. The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
All these pathological features—complete lack of insight into one’s own character, auto-erotic self-admiration and self-extenuation, denigration and terrorization of one’s fellow men (how contemptuously Hitler spoke of his own people!), projection of the shadow, lying, falsification of reality, determination to impress by fair means or foul, bluffing and double-crossing—all these were united in the man who was diagnosed clinically as an hysteric, and whom a strange fate chose to be the political, moral, and religious spokesman of Germany for twelve years. Is this pure chance?
A more accurate diagnosis of Hitler’s condition would be pseudologia phantastica, that form of hysteria which is characterized page by a peculiar talent for believing one’s own lies. For a short spell, such people usually meet with astounding success, and for that reason are socially dangerous. Nothing has such a convincing effect as a lie one invents and believes oneself, or an evil deed or intention whose righteousness one regards as self-evident. At any rate they carry far more conviction than the good man and the good deed, or even than the wicked man and his purely wicked deed. Hitler’s theatrical, obviously hysterical gestures struck all foreigners (with a few amazing exceptions) as purely ridiculous. When I saw him with my own eyes, he suggested a psychic scarecrow (with a broomstick for an outstretched arm) rather than a human being. It is also difficult to understand how his ranting speeches, delivered in shrill, grating, womanish tones, could have made such an impression. But the German people would never have been taken in and carried away so completely if this figure had not been a reflected image of the collective German hysteria. It is not without serious misgivings that one ventures to pin the label of “psychopathic inferiority” on to a whole nation, and yet, heaven knows, it is the only explanation which could in any way account for the effect this scarecrow had on the masses.
http://www.nbc.com/meet-the-press/video/meet-the-press-nov-29-2015/2940190?onid=210121#vc210121=1 and listen carefully, ( move the slider to 12 minutes and 30 seconds) you will hear Donald Trump say, “I really have no opinion, I just know that I’m weak—-uh, that I’m winning by a lot. I really have no opinion, but I know that I’m winning by a lot.” You will hear him catch himself, a moment in which he is clearly startled when he realizes that he said “weak” and then he overcompensates, as usual, with another of his winner phrases which he repeats a moment later. Jung pointed out that both dreams and slips of the tongue tend to compensate for defects in the waking attitude, especially any sort of one-sidedness. As in the yin-yang symbol, Trump tries to portray himself as all white/yang/masculine power, but the “I’m weak” slip, like the black dot in the white yang, shows his unconscious peaking through and tweaking his own nose.
The most stunning and hilarious slips of the tongue I’ve ever heard have come from another man that many thought would never become president—W. See Exploring the Unconscious—a Zap Oracle card that quotes some of W’s most amazing slips.
A sorry lack of education, conceit that bordered on madness, a very mediocre intelligence combined with the hysteric’s cunning and the power fantasies of an adolescent, were written all over this demagogue’s face. His gesticulations were all put on, devised by an hysterical mind intent only on making an impression. He behaved in public like a man living in his own biography, in this case as the sombre, daemonic “man of iron” of popular fiction, the ideal of an infantile public whose knowledge of the world is derived from the deified heroes of trashy films. These personal observations led me to conclude at the time (1937) that, when the final catastrophe came, it would be far greater and bloodier than I had previously supposed. For this theatrical hysteric and transparent impostor was not strutting about on a small stage, but was riding the armoured divisions of the Wehrmacht, with all the weight of German heavy industry behind him. Encountering only slight and in any case ineffective opposition from within, the nation of eighty millions crowded into the circus to witness its own destruction. [
Among Hitler’s closest associates, Goebbels and Göring stand out as equally striking figures. Göring is the good fellow and bon vivant type of cheat, who takes in the simple-minded with his jovial air of respectability; Goebbels, a no-less-sinister and dangerous character, is the typical Kaffeehausliterat and card-sharper, handicapped and at the same time branded by nature. Any one partner in this unholy trinity should have been enough to make any man whose instincts were not warped cross himself three times. But what in fact happened? Hitler was exalted to the skies; there were even theologians who looked upon him as the Saviour. Goring was popular on account of his weaknesses; few people would believe his crimes. Goebbels was tolerated because many people think that lying is inseparable from success, and that success justifies everything. Three of these types at one time were really the limit, and one is at a loss to imagine how anything quite so monstrous ever came to power.
