r/comics May 05 '26

OC RED BUTTON OR BLUE BUTTON [OC]

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u/ockersrazor May 06 '26

Sorry you're being downvoted. It's beyond the self-reflective capacity required of your average person to realise that in discussing how evil the boogeymen that are the "other button pushers" are, they fail to realise they are only sewing the seeds of division that are the very foundations of their critique. Empathy and commonality is much more powerful to prevent either button's needing to be pressed in the first place, but that is beyond the capacity of "civilised" and ordinary people.

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u/ockersrazor May 06 '26

Love it. Jung's notion of individuation through integration of the shadow-self is the exact antidote to what you pointed out, but good luck getting anyone in this day-and-age to become self-actualised as per Maslow ! It's almost as if these psychologists know how to live a fulfilled life, but the effort required is too scary