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[Carl Jung Archive @QuoteJung]

Intellectualism is a common cover-up for fear of direct experience.

- Carl Jung

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

Happy Independence Day!

There’s a story from the end of the Revolutionary War I want to tell as we celebrate America’s 250th Birthday, and it’s one everyone in the world can learn from.

George Washington, at that moment, after commanding the American forces to victory, was the most powerful man in the new country. Many people talked about making him King of America.

Across the ocean, King George was sitting with an American painter, and asked what he thought Washington would do now that the war was ending. The painter said he believed he would go back to his farm.

The King said, “If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.”

As the war officially ended, Washington came to speak to Congress and said, “Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theater of Action.” He returned his commission they’d given him in 1775 - after more than 8 years of leading the Americans to victory without pay, and he was home at Mount Vernon for Christmas.

Of course, he was elected as our first President a few years later, and after two terms, showed the same selflessness again when he willingly gave up his power and went back to Mount Vernon again.

That’s true greatness. He had all the power in the world. But power, alone, does not make you great.

Washington’s greatness came from being a true servant - to a cause much bigger than himself. His greatness was his complete lack of selfishness.

The whole story of American Independence is a story of selflessness. It’s a story of people who set their self-interest aside and worked for each other.

We’ve all heard the line about “We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

Apparently, Ben Franklin might have actually never said that.

But that’s fine, because the same mentality is right there in the last line of the Declaration of Independence, published on this day 250 years ago:

“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

We mutually pledge to each other.

No one was in this alone. No one was in it for themselves. This was a group of people with different backgrounds who were in it for each other.

Today is a reminder: greatness comes from what we do for each other, never what we do for ourselves.

That’s a lesson that applies no matter what country you call home.

It’s a lesson that doesn’t require any law passed by a politician, because, let’s be honest, if you’re waiting for selfless politicians, I really hope you are not holding your breath.

All of us have the power to be there for the people around us. For our families and friends. For our neighbors. For everyone.

All of us can reach for greatness.

It’s as simple as looking beyond yourself, seeing past the mirror, picking your eyes up from your phone, and pledging to be there for each other.

Happy Fourth. May you all find your own version of greatness today by lifting each other up.

Lift up your neighborhood. Lift up America. Lift up the World.

[Eye On Axis @eyeonaxis]

Park Avenue, Manhattan, New York, USA, 1964

[ib @Indian_Bronson]

Generational mistake not to rebuild the twin towers just as they were.

[halou @halou]

@sovietsoleri Watched it on the big screen yesterday. The visuals and the loud score get under your skin.

[Jocko Willink @jockowillink]

Sickening.

[𝐂𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 @HauntedMovies]

Andrea Riseborough in Mandy (2018) dir. Panos Cosmatos

[halou @halou]

Wire

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Name the musician or band.

[Faeton music blog @faetonmusic]

https://t.co/TVSVDezxww

[Thomas Hawk @thomashawk]

Fabulous San Francisco, California... those were the days.

[halou @halou]

Marty Supreme was a great movie, but even if it hadn't been, the Roxy Music and PIL needle drops are a couple of the best I've ever seen in a film.

[halou @halou]

Essential

[curefans @curefans]

JUST IN: 2026 will mark 40 years of The Cure In Orange
#TheCure
#HappyNewYear

[halou @halou]

Chris Duncan. 🤯🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[tuna @Art_hropod]

punk guys arent obsessed with dub anymore and thats why the music is worse

[Surprise Cast @SurpriseCast_]

SURPRISE CAST

Calling all dreampop, trip hop, and downtempo fans! Enjoy my interview with Halou - one of the Bay Area's finest bands still crushing it with great music!
@halou #dreampop #triphop #downtempo #surprisecast

https://t.co/MHOACjYSr7

https://t.co/looruSiYSJ

[halou @halou]

I hate it when I see a post that has 2000 likes and then I click like and it doesn't change to 2001.

[Surprise Cast @SurpriseCast_]

Surprise Cast
w/ Halou

I had a rocking good time chatting w/ Ryan and Rebecca. It'll be available to stream or download on Tuesday, November 4th. Check out their downtempo beauty, "Butcher".
https://t.co/JShpvkRCTK

@halou #triphop #downtempo #electronic #sanfrancisco #podcast

[halou @halou]

I love electronic music and grew up in the 80s but I don’t give a shit about Tron. 🤷‍♂️

[MMA Orbit @mma_orbit]

The UFC uploaded the full fight between Adrian Luna Martinetti and Mark Vologdin from #DWCS, and they're calling it ‘The Greatest Fight of All Time.’ 😳🔥

[halou @halou]

Masterpiece.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

On this day, 51 years ago, Tobe Hooper's "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974) premiered in Austin, Texas.