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As I fell asleep, I reflected on how this is actually a great example of what Jung meant by the collective unconscious. It was never anything mystical or inherently new age. The mechanism is simple:
A significant portion of the population has had common experiences that shaped us, particularly to do with being taken for granted and exploited by abusers and capitalism now in late stage collapse, and feeling generally powerless to defend ourselves. Add this to our common cultural background (Aesop, Grimm, Untitled games with a previous meme cycle), and our knowledge of the properties of reality (cute animals but loud and fast with long necks and built-in weapons and will attac).
These ingredients mix together similarly for each of us, such that we instantly understand a meaning that wasn't intended by its out-of-touch corporate creator. This validation, in addition to a particular irony that makes our oppressors look like fools, gives us a common emotional and creative response.
(There's a similar effect that underlies the concepts of the "zeitgeist" (also a Jungian idea) and the attitudes of generational cohorts.)
Of course there are exceptions. Some may lack one or more of these ingredients due to diverse experiences, backgrounds, sensory processing, trauma copes, sense of humor, and exposure to the source materials. But that doesn't change that it happens, or why.
And I'm here for it.
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As I fell asleep, I reflected on how this is actually a great example of what Jung meant by the collective unconscious. It was never anything mystical or inherently new age. The mechanism is simple:
A significant portion of the population has had common experiences that shaped us, particularly to do with being taken for granted and exploited by abusers and capitalism now in late stage collapse, and feeling generally powerless to defend ourselves. Add this to our common cultural background (Aesop, Grimm, Untitled games with a previous meme cycle), and our knowledge of the properties of reality (cute animals but loud and fast with long necks and built-in weapons and will attac).
These ingredients mix together similarly for each of us, such that we instantly understand a meaning that wasn't intended by its out-of-touch corporate creator. This validation, in addition to a particular irony that makes our oppressors look like fools, gives us a common emotional and creative response.
(There's a similar effect that underlies the concepts of the "zeitgeist" (also a Jungian idea) and the attitudes of generational cohorts.)
Of course there are exceptions. Some may lack one or more of these ingredients due to diverse experiences, backgrounds, sensory processing, trauma copes, sense of humor, and exposure to the source materials. But that doesn't change that it happens, or why.
And I'm here for it.
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I need to go to bed but I'm afraid #goosetodon may peak while I'm asleep and I'll miss out on meme opportunities.
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I need to go to bed but I'm afraid #goosetodon may peak while I'm asleep and I'll miss out on meme opportunities.
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RE: https://discuss.systems/@dev/116807460725864716
@sundogplanets we need your take on this. Its been taking over Mastodon, has relevance to geese and techbros so is right in your area of the Venn diagram.
What's the value of the goose? Please, Mastodon needs to know.
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RE: https://discuss.systems/@dev/116807460725864716
@sundogplanets we need your take on this. Its been taking over Mastodon, has relevance to geese and techbros so is right in your area of the Venn diagram.
What's the value of the goose? Please, Mastodon needs to know.
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I feel like the way some folks are expressing annoyance with the goose discourse, that they're not viscerally connecting with the symbolism the way most of us are.
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Like, I *feel* this meme. It's representative of my whole life, of having my lifeforce sucked out of me by parasites until I'm ill at age 50 and have nothing to show for it. It's a rare but accidental honesty from the clueless fucks who rule this world. It's the entire story of each of us and the whole world told in a handful of phrases and images.
"Goose is not valued" feels like a rallying cry for valuable people who are only just now starting to realize...
...that we do have value.
And that the only way they're going to understand our value is if we make them.
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I feel like the way some folks are expressing annoyance with the goose discourse, that they're not viscerally connecting with the symbolism the way most of us are.
🤔
Like, I *feel* this meme. It's representative of my whole life, of having my lifeforce sucked out of me by parasites until I'm ill at age 50 and have nothing to show for it. It's a rare but accidental honesty from the clueless fucks who rule this world. It's the entire story of each of us and the whole world told in a handful of phrases and images.
"Goose is not valued" feels like a rallying cry for valuable people who are only just now starting to realize...
...that we do have value.
And that the only way they're going to understand our value is if we make them.
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There’s a kind of delight in finding that this tag previously existed, as if the goose was already valued here. And so it has proved. #goosetodon
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There’s a kind of delight in finding that this tag previously existed, as if the goose was already valued here. And so it has proved. #goosetodon
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Just thought I'd pop in here and have a gander
🪿 🪿 🪿 🪿 🪿 🪿 🪿 🪿 🪿 🪿 🪿 🪿 🪿 🪿 🪿
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Just thought I'd pop in here and have a gander
🪿 🪿 🪿 🪿 🪿 🪿 🪿 🪿 🪿 🪿 🪿 🪿 🪿 🪿 🪿
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Geese sometimes fly upside-down, an activity known as whiffling.
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Geese sometimes fly upside-down, an activity known as whiffling.
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Hundreds if not thousands of geese at the Tualatin National Wildlife Refuge. #BirdsOfMastodon #goosetodon #tualatin
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Hundreds if not thousands of geese at the Tualatin National Wildlife Refuge. #BirdsOfMastodon #goosetodon #tualatin
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Canada geese, per Willenbrink & Willenbrink, Drawing Nature for the Absolute Beginner. #MastoArt #drawing #sketching #geese #goosetodon #birds
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Canada geese, per Willenbrink & Willenbrink, Drawing Nature for the Absolute Beginner. #MastoArt #drawing #sketching #geese #goosetodon #birds
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CW: Selfie with geese, plenty of eye contact
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CW: Selfie with geese, plenty of eye contact
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Huh, that's odd. I thought that would be big news.
There seems to be an absence of a certain ornithological piece. A headline regarding mass awareness of a certain avian variety.
It's GOOOSEDAY!
*honk* 🪿
📷 Oberpfalz, Germany, August 2023
#GooseDay #Goosetodon #FediGeese
CW: Partial eye contact with a (slightly menacing looking, but friendly) goose
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Huh, that's odd. I thought that would be big news.
There seems to be an absence of a certain ornithological piece. A headline regarding mass awareness of a certain avian variety.
It's GOOOSEDAY!
*honk* 🪿
📷 Oberpfalz, Germany, August 2023
#GooseDay #Goosetodon #FediGeese
CW: Partial eye contact with a (slightly menacing looking, but friendly) goose
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Happy #GooseDay!
💤 :goose: 💤 :goose: *honk* :goose:
Geese and sheep chilling by the river Cam.
Cambridge, UK, March 2015 -
Happy #GooseDay!
💤 :goose: 💤 :goose: *honk* :goose:
Geese and sheep chilling by the river Cam.
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I met these glorious geese along the river Cam a couple of years ago.
Happy #GooseDay!
*honk* :goose: ... ... ... *honk* :goose:
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I met these glorious geese along the river Cam a couple of years ago.
Happy #GooseDay!
*honk* :goose: ... ... ... *honk* :goose:
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This gorgeous gaggle of grey geese wishes you all a glorious #GooseDay.
*honk* *honk* *honk* *honk* *honk* *honk* *honk* :goose: :goose: :goose: :goose: :goose: :goose: :goose:
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This gorgeous gaggle of grey geese wishes you all a glorious #GooseDay.
*honk* *honk* *honk* *honk* *honk* *honk* *honk* :goose: :goose: :goose: :goose: :goose: :goose: :goose:
