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> I think it was Hermann Hesse who wrote that "If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't di
by kstenerud 4y ago
> I think it was Hermann Hesse who wrote that "If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."
This sounds nice and pithy, but it's trivial to debunk. Beheading someone is not part of myself, but it most certainly disturbs me. And I certainly wouldn't be hating something in myself by hating someone who perpetrated such a grisly crime.
- jgaa 4y agoSo you know yourself 100% then?
- kstenerud 4y agoYeah, THAT'S totally the takeaway from this discussion.
- Stevvo 4y agoIt's speaking to Jungian idea of the shadow; you're not meant to take it so literally.
- kstenerud 4y agoUnfortunately, it's not taken that way in modern times. Nowadays it's usually used for arguments like "Hate X? You must be secretly X!"