Most powerful symbols

[plainsight]

What are in your opinion the most powerful symbols that have a place in the collective subconscious ?

 

[Xenophon]

Quite possibly the dollar sign. Juris Huysmans has an enlightening rant on the power of money in La Bas. Certainly the obsession with Geld-getting far outstrips any conceivable need, as well as the motivating power of any religion or ideology in these times. It ruthlessly slew the Catholic Church's hold on minds, put paid to Marxism, and---as Iron Maggie declared---TINA: "There is no alternative." Consider the incomprehension that you get if ever you refuse to swap time---the lone irreplaceable---for money (the supremely replaceable.) We are all earnings-egregores and money the Mage. (Well perhaps not money as such. Geld hath its surreptitious stewards.)

 

[plainsight]

Quite possibly the dollar sign. Juris Huysmans has an enlightening rant on the power of money in La Bas. Certainly the obsession with Geld-getting far outstrips any conceivable need, as well as the motivating power of any religion or ideology in these times. It ruthlessly slew the Catholic Church's hold on minds, put paid to Marxism, and---as Iron Maggie declared---TINA: "There is no alternative." Consider the incomprehension that you get if ever you refuse to swap time---the lone irreplaceable---for money (the supremely replaceable.) We are all earnings-egregores and money the Mage. (Well perhaps not money as such. Geld hath its surreptitious stewards.)

Interesting you say it overtook the Catholic Church’s hold on our minds. I’d wager that, behind the scenes, the Baal worship never ceased, it carried through the Catholic Church and is still with us heavily today … but I would agree, in terms of symbols it may indeed be the most powerful.

 

[Xenophon]

Maybe a good point on Catholicism. The Church's overt hold was broken with the roughly concomitant rise of usury in the late Middle Ages. But today's humanitarianism remains very much a product of late-Judaism/early-Christian thinking. Nietzsche called Kant an "underhanded Christian." So too the latter's "progressive" heirs.