Tom Ellis
Jan 16, 2025

Thank you, Peter, for an astute, and terrifying analysis. Trump represents the surfacing of the Jungian "shadow" of "white" America (a term I always put in quotes)--that is, the incarnation of all the repulsive and despicable underside of Euro-American civilization that we hide from ourselves under the veneer of our idealism and jingoistic vanity--our genocidal purge of native inhabitants, our enslavement and subsequent dehumanization of Africans, our shameless greed, willful ignorance, and denial, our xenophobia, and our glorification of oligarchs. And with Trump, our karmic debt is coming due. I obviously hope that the outcomes will not be as horrific as you suggest, but we very well might be in for unimaginable tyranny and brutality...

Tom Ellis
Tom Ellis

Written by Tom Ellis

I am a retired English professor now living in Oregon, and a life-long environmental activist, Buddhist, and holistic philosopher.

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