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Diane Perlman, PhD's avatar

Agreed. In the 80s & 90s it was the liberals who were for detente, although Reagan met with Gorby. In 1982 I was one of a million people in NYC Central Park marching for a nuclear freeze, with baby in stroller. In 1984 I went to the USSR asa citizen diplomat with the Association of humanistic Psychology to meet our counterparts. There is a strategy to reverse the arms race, called GRIT - Graduated Reciprocated Initiatives in Tension Reduction by Charles Osgood, And there is actually a word for things going so extreme they turn into their opposite - Enantiodromia - by Hericlitis, used by Jung.

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William Paul's avatar

I'm a big fan of Jung, and have been reading as much as I have time for since May 2022.

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