From the perspective of an archetypal psychology, the fascination with exchange between peoples everywhere, the hypercommunication of globalism, the emphasis on trade and finance, the instantaneity offered by electronics, the compulsion to travel—all this indicates the mythical cosmos of Hermes-Mercurius, the fleet-footed god with wings on his feet, cap of invisibility, and winged thoughts. Globalism feels like an overdose of Hermes, just as the age of reason suffered from an overdose of Apollonic sunlight and an excess of the normalizing rationality of Minerva. Or, for another example of divine hypertrophy,the madnesses of Mars that so seizes a people that any common man and woman can become an enraged killer.
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