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Is he really the endgame?

Ive spent my entire 20s learning the western philosophical canon, studying it. I won't pretend to have read every nook and cranny but I read all the "greats." With few exceptions, they're all retarded. How did a group of men who venerated wisdom so strongly, and who kissed their own asses so passionately, manage to talk for thousands of years and say literally nothing important or insightful about living life? Why the fuck does anyone think this shit is valuable?
Eastern philosophers have them beat by a mile. The only westerners who may come close are Jung, Nietzsche and some of the occultists. Other than that you could literally throw it all in the trash and the world wouldn't be any worse off.

I've started reading Carl Jung's stuff recently, and without doing an injustice to his complexity, I want to run something by you all. In all his works, it seems like the central theme can be boiled down to this: the belief in dualistic perspectives, whether it be that good is separate from evil, or that the conscious is separate from the unconscious, what have you, is a fatal error in western thinking that will ensure the psychological breakdown of it's societies.
It runs throughout all of his writings. In The Undiscovered Self, it nearly seems to be the entire main theme of the book. He is giving immense weight to the idea that we ignore the unconscious irrationality of man in favor of conscious rationalism, to our own peril: it ensures that the repressed unconscious drives will one day win out with such force as never seen before, rationalism will be totally thrown out in favor of an age of, basically, hysterical fits of fanatic delusion on every level.

When I look around today, it rings true enough to me. The conscious should never have been seen as superior to or separate from the unconscious, it has made us psychologically vulnerable to insanity. What do you all think?

>>19400199
What a liar this Carl Jung must have been...

>>19320444
Your problem is you're suffering from ego, you think you are any different from those people.

You do not recognize the times you have been selfish in the past, how you are in your weakest moments etc. And when you harshly judge these others you are implicitly judging your own shadow side, understand and nurture don't judge anon.

Getting into Jung, you're going through ultra dense paragraphs of theory then once in a while he just hits you with a total zinger out of nowhere

I've taken the Jung pill. What would you recommend I can start reading him? Ive read "Modern Man in Search of a Soul", "Memories, Dreams, and Reflections", and am finishing up "Man and His Symbols". But I don't know where to go from here. I don't know how to put all of this in practice. Any recommendations are welcomed