A Timeless warning

I’d like to start off with a quote:

“The power of science and technics … is so enormous and indisputable that there is little point in reckoning up all that can be done and all that has been invented. One shudders at the stupendous possibilities. Quite another question begins to loom up: Who is applying this technical skill? in whose hands does this power lie? For the present, the state is a provisional means of protection, because, apparently, it safeguards the citizen from the enormous quantities of poison gas and other infernal engines of destruction which can be manufactured by the thousand tons at a moment’s notice. Our technical skill has grown to be so dangerous that the most urgent question today is not what more can be done in this line, but how the man who is entrusted with the control of this skill should be constituted, or how to alter the mind of Western man so that he would renounce his terrible skill. It is infinitely more important to strip him of the illusion of his power than to strengthen him still further in the mistaken idea that he can do everything he wills. The slogan one hears so often in Germany, “Where there’s a will there’s a way,” has cost the lives of millions of human beings.

… Man has no need of more superiority over nature, whether outside or inside. He has both in almost devilish perfection. What he lacks is conscious recognition of his inferiority to the nature around and within him. He must learn that he may not do exactly as he wills. If he does not learn this, his own nature will destroy him. He does not know that his own soul is rebelling against him in a suicidal way.”

Don’t you find it relevant?

And amazingly it comes from Carl Jung in the 1970’s, published in his Collected Works.

Here is another warning from Jung:

“We need more understanding of human nature, because the only danger that exists is man himself — he is the great danger, and we are pitifully unaware of it. “

And one more: “Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort.”

I’m thinking that if you wanted to learn more about human nature, how to quiet our human dangerous instincts and unleash our beneficial ones, a good place to start might be MindShifting: Stop Your Brain from Sabotaging Your Happiness and Success.

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