"The problem with western civilization is the oedipal complex [...] Very briefly, the Oedipal complex shows up in the way people orally fixate to external sourc

"The problem with western civilization is the oedipal complex [...] Very briefly, the Oedipal complex shows up in the way people orally fixate to external sources of authority, suckling on their (president's/sports team's/teacher's/guru's/celebrity's/corporation's) ego instead of moving the locus of authority within themselves. This practice forms many incomplete people into a transpersonal blob, collapsing individual autonomy into a flow of resources to, energetic investment to (emotional/advertising/replicative), and political assent to being ruled by, and moreover becoming literally a part of, the authority." https://www.reddit.com/r/sorceryofthespectacle/comments/5sd92y/team_briefing_2017/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sorceryofthespectacle/comments/5sd9...