[SamHenryCliff]

Case in point: Marc Andreeson denigrating introspection not only in his own life, but extrapolating that to the population at large. As Dr, Jung noted, healing happens in solitude. That’s one of the reasons that Alcoholics Anonymous really didn’t help me much. Sitting around broken people isn’t going to magically cause a “spiritual awakening” but in a few, nearly statistically negligible instances.

Turning off Social Media from 10pm to 8am local time would be a great start toward the recovery of human interaction sabotaged by COVID. To put it another way, Grocery Stores which supply life sustaining nutrition are not typically open 24 hours. Comparatively speaking they are more “Good” than social media. As such, rein in the latter rather than expand the former (Wal-Mart finding open 24 hours isn’t worth it is an economic proof of concept here) and we can improve our collective ability to make progress.

[dang]

Where did Jung say that healing happens in solitude? Do you happen to remember where you heard/read this?

[philipkglass]

This was interesting enough to prompt an investigation. It looks like the idea comes from this letter that he wrote late in life:

https://philosophics.blog/2021/08/01/the-futility-of-words/

I don't know German so I can't search for the original with any facility.