Carl Jung And Richard Dawkins In Flooded Subway Tunnel
Carl Jung and Richard Dawkins are stuck in Flooded Subway Tunnel and forced to have a deep conversation.
Here's their conversation:
1. Jung: This encroaching water, Dawkins, feels like the collective unconscious surging forth, revealing the primal depths we try to ignore.
2. Dawkins: Nonsense, Jung. It's merely hydrostatic pressure and inadequate engineering; no archetypes here, just predictable physics failing.
3. Jung: But isn't the very human tendency to build, to create order against chaos, itself an expression of a universal archetype, the Self striving for wholeness?
4. Dawkins: It's a survival strategy, plain and simple. Those who built better survived longer; no need for mystical explanations.
5. Jung: And yet, that survival instinct, that drive, resonates with the shadow, the potential for destruction that also resides within us. This flood is both a consequence and a symbol.
6. Dawkins: Symbolism is a dangerous distraction from verifiable truth. The truth is, inadequate pumps and rising sea levels caused this, not some collective psychic drama.
7. Jung: Perhaps. But even your scientific method is driven by a deep, unconscious desire to understand the universe, a yearning for knowledge that mirrors the individuation process.
8. Dawkins: I'm driven by evidence, Jung, not yearnings. My 'desire' is to disprove hypotheses until the best explanation remains.
9. Jung: And within that process of disproof, might you not find glimpses of the divine, the inherent order that transcends mere biological imperatives?
10. Dawkins: If by 'divine' you mean elegant mathematical equations that describe natural selection, then perhaps we're closer to agreement than you think.