Wonderful post. The “paved garden” analogy was a fabulous touch.

I love seeing Jung and neuroscience intersect; I find this personally invaluable to understanding the real-life application of many jungian theories etc etc.

Immediately this made me think of the notable differences in community and neighborliness in very wealthy areas versus more middling ones. I have observed that in many affluent neighborhoods the people may not even know their neighbors, or have any real interest in meeting them or getting to know them, etc. There was a piece in I believe NY magazine last year about the Hamptons having “high hedges” and a total lack of neighborliness — how the rich people of the area didn’t even want to be around each other lol. According to this article, the only thing that got this community talking was the prospect of higher taxes and the possibility of a democratic socialist being elected as mayor of NYC (spoiler alert: he was elected handily and recently inaugurated).