Meditation on the Death of Anima

I'll use examples of people who greatly influenced me, although I disagree with them on everything except their intellectual methods. So, Scott Alexander and his Slate Star Codex. I vaguely remember that blog and read his Astral Codex Ten not long ago. Essentially, before Scott was ostracized, he was different. Completely different. His thinking was livelier, brighter, more autistic; he published all those legendary pasts like "Meditations on Moloch" and "The Goddess of Everything Else" on his old blog. He agreed to run the new one on some platform that offered him good money. He found a wife and had two daughters, but this union wasn't some crazy alchemical fusion of Shiva and Shakti. Simply a good agreement between a pair of intelligent, mature, rational people with very similar mindsets. And it's important to understand that the doxxing seriously damaged his practice and career as a psychiatrist. Alexander Dugin is a completely different case. A mystic, a polyglot, a pure Soviet elitist. As part of the true elite, he had an excellent understanding of Western philosophical ideas and produced an insane number of witty and, yes, insane, arguments against them. Concentration camps for surfers, jungle cats, you name it. His marriage to a feminist, with his overall patriarchal vibe, and the daughter he left behind, is a rare example of a union. Daria was a kind of projection of his anima; after her death, he also withdrew. Essentially, the anima is as immortal as the soul. It's just that each person has a powerful projection of their anima into the world. After its death, a person loses their soul and becomes a function. A good, effective, conscious one, but that fragile playfulness vanishes completely. A person becomes a functional node, not a schizophrenic node in the web of collective consciousness, something one can admire for a long time. I haven't read early Dostoevsky and can't stand the later. I don't think there's a soul there, just a little soul. But the link clearly broke the very same part I mentioned in the two previous examples. It's best to keep the animation somewhere within yourself and nurture it very gradually. Creating an external object, be it a person, a stunning blog, or a revolutionary movement, is high risk, high reward. But if you think about it, it's low reward. Because an external element in the form of, say, a blog, can have a gigantic impact, but utilizing it to, say, improve the surrounding landscape is almost impossible. It's like a hundred thousand rationalists won't even convert into an urban-type settlement, at most into a handful of communal houses.