"The spirit of this time considers itself extremely clever, like every such spirit of the time...
The clever person mocks wisdom...
he uses the pointed, poisonous weapon...
But the mockery falls on the mocker...
and he suffocates on his own scorn.
We cannot save ourselves from the cleverness of the spirit of this time through increasing our cleverness, but through accepting what our cleverness hates most."
--The Red Book, CG Jung, Edited by Sonu Shamdasani, p. 237
Massive amounts of contempt for others will not get us anywhere.
To progress, we have to accept the Beauty in others as well as the Beast in ourselves.
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