A love letter of concern to my fellow Canadians: Just how deep does our
rot go? How is the decay we are
witnessing related to beliefs in a toxic ideology which is built on a loathing
of individual liberty and economic freedoms? How much of this is due to a collective
psychological immaturity?
Let us begin by examining the Canadian economy:
I will begin with a micro view regarding the
economic downturn we are in, but I certainly won’t finish there. There are too
many signs of socioeconomic decay. Since most will feel the results of tyranny
in their pocketbooks first, I’ll begin with that. But first let me clarify the
single greatest problem we face. We find ourselves in a place where the meaning
of words has been so corrupted that the precise use of language is no longer
possible. We can thank our universities for this. Postmodern literary criticism
has obliterated our ability to communicate clearly and concisely. We are funding
our universities to indoctrinate our young, so we also need to ensure that courses
are being taught based upon Western traditions and the legal system of Common
Law. For instance, courses in Austrian Economics and the importance of free
markets would be useful in demonstrating the proper prosperous foundation of economic
freedom.
Centrally planned economies are not representative
of free market capitalism. This lie has been employed by radicalized professors
who want us to surrender our economic freedoms to greater state control. We
need to remember that the government’s primary obligation is to enforce the
rule of law, defend our borders, while protecting its citizens, RATHER THAN ATTEMPTING
TO CONTROL THE MARKET (WHICH IS IMPOSSIBLE) WHILE PRINTING MONEY OUT OF THIN
AIR (ROBBING US OF THE VALUE OF OUR SAVINGS)! If you wish to design an economic
system for failure, make economic progress the jurisdiction of the state and
its bureaucracy. The reason we are in the economic downturn we are in with a
greatly devalued currency is the direct result of state interference in an area
that ought to be left to the private sector and private investors! One of the
certainties of planned economies is that our elected representatives will be bribed
by lobbyists. They will then use our taxes to fund their pet projects. Canada
has had so many examples of this type of corruption that it is an indictment upon
the Canadian body politic. Yet the blatant misuse of public funds has not
resulted in the government falling and being criminally charged! I want a
Canada with free markets totally devoid of state interference. I am fairly
certain that most of you do as well.
The great lie about the left versus right political divide:
The left has taken
fascism from the left-wing column and moved it into the right-wing column. Fascism
was originally a phenomenon of the political left. It was explicitly socialist
hence the name Nazi or National Socialism and it wasn't only Hitler who used this
term! The Nazis had a platform of total state control over the banks, education,
industry, and the media. This is obviously a left-wing agenda. So clearly it is
factual to state that the Nazis and the fascist saw themselves as being on the
left. Everyone recognized that these ideologies were a phenomenon of the left, however
after WWII university professors from the left saw the starving emaciated
figures coming out of the concentration camps. Progressive intellectuals who
dominated American academia realized that their own views were suspiciously
close to those of Mussolini and not all that far from those of Hitler. They
realized that they had to redefine fascism and Nazism to remove their
association with these ideologies. So now you have the utterly bizarre
phenomenon where somebody can walk up to Benjamin Netanyahu and call him a Nazi!
My Norwegian wife often
wanted to debate these topics back in Norway but found it utterly impossible. In
Norway there is a plethora of topics which are deemed to be sacrosanct and
therefore untouchable. Since I spent two and a half years living there, I know
precisely what my wife was up against, an ideological machine based upon total social
conformity. I watched her honest attempts to deal with the economic problems she
was assigned by her government to address. So, I heard her frustrations on a daily
basis. First and foremost, in Norway I saw a society whose belief in “Democratic
Socialism” being embraced with such religious fervor that its collectivist
mindset rejects and mislabels any who challenge their national zeitgeist. Obviously,
I found it very off-putting, just as I do here in Canada today. Since I saw how
their socialist system operates, I can assure my listeners and readers that
there is nothing less democratic than the political system which Norwegians
have the temerity to label as “democratic”. This is a subject I have mentioned
so frequently that I fear belabouring my point. My wife was a Senior Advisor at
the Norwegian Defence Department where her efforts to reduce waste, cost, and variation
were met with open hostility from her colleagues and bosses. Anne-Siri pointing
out the failures of this dysfunctional system to serve the needs of the
Norwegian public demonstrated the following reality, that the beatings would
continue until moral improves!
The origin of the left versus right political divide, Revolutionary
France:
In revolutionary France those who believed
that the executive branch of government as represented by the King cannot be
vetoed by Parliament sat to the King's right while those who believed that Parliament
had the right to veto the King's arbitrary demands sat to the King's left. By
this measure all authoritarian forms of government are right wing while all of us
who believe in limited representative government left-wing. Therefore, Conservatives
who believe in limited government according to this measure sit on the left
while Fascists, Nazis, Postmodernists, Democratic Socialists, Marxists,
Postmodernists, and Cultural Marxists, etc., etc., are in principle all statist,
authoritarian ideologies which share similar beliefs in centralized state
control. Because of this I am no longer willing to accept labels created by social
collectivist radicals to obfuscate clarity and understanding. These labels were
invented by authoritarians who loathe representative democracy. I refuse to use
their language. I will not play their Postmodern word game. Nevertheless, for
the sake of mutual understanding and despite the term is technically incorrect
I am forced to refer to Postmodernists and Cultural Marxists as being on the
left.
On the necessity of personal accountability: What is the result when an
entire society fails to individuate to become mature adults?
Carl Jung’s concept of individuation
refers to the lifelong psychological process of integrating the conscious and
unconscious parts of the psyche to become a whole, mature individual. When this
process is neglected or blocked, especially on a large scale, it can
have profound societal consequences.
🧠 What
Happens When Individuation Is Absent?
If many individuals fail to
individuate, the result can be a collective psychological immaturity.
Here's how that might manifest:
1.
Emotional Immaturity
- People may remain dependent on external
validation.
- Difficulty handling conflict, criticism, or
ambiguity.
- Overreliance on group identity or ideology
instead of personal values.
2.
Irresponsibility
- Avoidance of personal accountability.
- Blaming others (or systems) for personal
failures.
- Lack of initiative or resilience in facing
life’s challenges.
3. Shadow
Projection
- Jung emphasized the “shadow” — the
unconscious, repressed parts of ourselves.
- Without individuation, people project their
shadow onto others, leading to scapegoating, tribalism, and moral panic.
4. Mass
Conformity and Herd Mentality
- People may follow trends, ideologies, or
charismatic leaders without critical thought.
- This can lead to polarization, extremism, or
even authoritarian movements.
5. Crisis
of Meaning
- Without a developed inner life, individuals
may feel empty or lost.
- This can lead to addiction, escapism, or
nihilism.
🌍 Societal Consequences
When this lack of
individuation becomes widespread, it can resemble an epidemic of arrested
development:
- Workplaces may
be filled with reactive, unreflective behavior.
- Politics may
become more emotionally charged and less rational.
- Education may
focus on conformity over critical thinking.
- Culture may
prioritize superficiality over depth.
Jung warned that without
individuation, society risks becoming a mass of unconscious individuals,
vulnerable to manipulation and incapable of true progress.
Connecting Carl Jung’s concept of individuation to
modern politics reveals some powerful insights into why political discourse
today often feels polarized, reactive, and emotionally charged.
🧠 Individuation in Jungian Psychology
Individuation is the
process by which a person becomes psychologically whole — integrating their
conscious identity with unconscious aspects like the shadow, anima/animus, and
archetypes. It leads to maturity, self-awareness, and personal responsibility.
🏛️ How Lack of Individuation Affects
Modern Politics
1. Shadow Projection in Political Tribalism
- Jung warned that when individuals don’t
confront their own shadow, they project it onto others.
- In politics, this manifests as demonizing
the “other side” — seeing opponents not as fellow citizens with different
views, but as threats or villains.
- This fuels polarization, conspiracy
thinking, and moral absolutism.
2. Mass Psychology and Herd Mentality
- Jung was deeply concerned about the
dangers of mass movements.
- Without individuation, people may
surrender personal judgment to groupthink, ideology, or charismatic
leaders.
- This can lead to authoritarianism, ideological
possession, and/or blind allegiance to political parties.
3. Emotional Reactivity Over Rational Discourse
- Immature psyches are driven by emotion,
not reflection.
- Political debates become performative and
reactive, focused on outrage rather than solutions.
- Social media amplifies this by rewarding
emotional intensity over nuance.
4. Loss of Personal Responsibility
- Jung emphasized personal responsibility as
a key outcome of individuation.
- In its absence, people may externalize
blame rather than engaging constructively.
- This fosters cynicism, disengagement, or
radicalization.
5. Crisis of Meaning and Identity Politics
- Without individuation, people may seek
identity through external labels — race, gender, nationality, ideology —
rather than inner development.
- While cultural identity is very important,
over-identification can lead to fragmentation, where collective identity
replaces personal growth.
- Jung saw this as a danger to both the
individual and society.
🌱 How Individuation Could Transform Politics
If more individuals
engaged in the process of individuation, politics could shift toward:
- Debate based on open dialogue
- Empathy over enmity
- Critical thinking over conformity to the preferred
in group
- Personal responsibility over projecting blame
onto others
- Inner development over seeking external
validation
How did we permit radicals to hijack our universities
since the Academy is responsible for radicalizing several generations of young
people at the taxpayers’ expense?
The first problem is
that we have forgotten our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! Here in the West
people have been foolish enough to reject the idea that Christ alone is King! Culturally
we have failed to recognize that Christian values, ethics, epistemology and
ontological thinking are foundational to maintaining a functional law-abiding
civil society with justice and liberty for all.
The second thing that
we must understand is that most folks are simply not philosophers. Most have
not studied the processes of thought which have resulted in two World Wars, the
Cold War and the conflicts in the Gulf and the Middle East. People were too
busy keeping a roof over their heads, putting food on the table, and clothing
themselves while trusting that their governments had not been weaponized to
attack the very constitutional democracy, that they had elected them to defend.
Many know little to nothing about Hegelian Dialectics and the ideological
possession of authoritarian regimes. Many simply cannot put themselves into the
minds of others who holds radically different beliefs. We falsely assume that everyone
must be just like us sharing our basic values of common decency. Well, my
friends there is nothing so uncommon as common decency!
Thirdly, my generation
up to the present are spoiled. I was spoiled. As a young adult I had little
concept of what it was like to be live through the Great Depression only to be
sent off to war to defend Mother Country while ridding Europe from social
collectivist tyranny. I simply cannot imagine how difficult my father’s life
must have been, even though he was fortunate enough to have some exceptional
talents that resulted in his Commanding Officer keeping him out of the European
theatre of war. If he had been sent, I might not have been here to write this blog.
Ideological fallacies have resulted in creating endless
conflicts and civil unrest:
I'm feeling more than
a bit frustrated given all the ridiculous ideological fallacies which have
captured our universities, governmental agencies, bureaucracies, and our
dangerously ideologically addled political class. Since the martyrdom of Socratic
debater and Christian apologist Charlie Kirk, I can see no peaceful solution to
the species of ideological possession which has made itself fully manifest.
Ideological insanity has now been borne open for public scrutiny. Yet too few
care to investigate the nature of it and its complexities. Our universities
have been weaponized to corrupt our youth. The Academy’s endless spewing of
Neo-Marxist rhetoric is beyond the pale. We need to stop deceiving ourselves.
We are at war with an ideological enemy. Since I call myself “The Reluctant
Prophet”, I predict with reasonable certainty that this will not end well!
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