• happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    Anti™ • trauma-informed jungian urbanist • @paaunow • CLE advocate • secularist • punk as fk 🇵🇸

    What the fuck kind of leftist describes themselves as Jungian? I’ve only seen that associated with Jordan Peterson cultists.

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      They could be a Jordan Peterson person. I have a friend who got into an argument with me about how he thought he was “more left” than me when I called Natalie Wynn a liberal, and he also had a period where he thought Peterson was cool. I don’t really know how that happened, because the whole thing that made Peterson popular was transphobia and this friend of mine was utterly immersed in trans friends, acquaintances, lovers, etc. But I never really looked into Peterson back then so when he was like “nah he’s not what everyone says” i was kind of just like “alright whatever, some random canadian guy isnt a big deal”

      anyway, moral of the story i guess is people are fuckin incoherent

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      This sounds like: “Who listens to Wagner, i’ve only seen nazis do it.” It can be the case, but doesnt have to be.

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        7 months ago

        Sure but if you say you’re a Jungian leftist I’m going to start looking for your judas goat opinion. I like Tristan und Isolde, but I’d never call myself a Wagnerite in the same way I would a Mahler Chad because it’s so far outside of the modernism that you’d expect from the left. It’s a very different intellectual thread coming from very different ideological sources.