Only when all our hold on life
is troubled,
Only in spiritual terror can
the Truth
Come through the broken mind -
W.B. Yeats
I suspect we all have at least moments of delusion when we feel special, somehow above, completely separate & immune from common human frailties. At these times we're quick-fix superheros, right wing, law & order, hanging judges. More than a few of us retain this attitude till they "pry our gun from our cold, dead hands."
An individual or "group may assert exceptionalism ... in order to exaggerate the appearance of difference, perhaps to create an atmosphere permissive of a wider latitude of action, and to avoid recognition of similarities that would reduce perceived justifications." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exceptionalism
Dysfunctionally reacting to, instead of wisely addressing, existential dread, is perhaps our central problem: http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/2017/05/elephant-in-room.html
"A neurosis is suffering that has not yet found its meaning." Carl Jung
"Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose." Carl Jung
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