19-08-2016, 08:17 AM
Drew Phipps Wrote:Too bad there's no one around to give Trump his own Bentsen-Quayle moment:
"You, sir, are no Henry Ford."
Except that Henry Ford also supported the Nazi Government with trucks, and spare parts. And was a notorious anti-Semite. And he probably had a mistress, and maybe an illegitimate child. At the end of his career, he was making his workers (and his children) so miserable with this abusive management style that they compared him to Hitler.
Okay, so maybe Trump is a Henry Ford.
Ford was an outspoken and unpleasant nazi. And yet he was far from being alone in the US when it came to supporting Hitler's military machine. General Motors continued to build a large amount of trucks and half tracks for the Wermacht and engines for the JU-88 bombers Luftwaffe, plus torpedo detonators etc., throughout the war. Ditto Standard Oil who secretly provided fuel to Nazi U-boats even after Pearl Harbour, and also withheld vital blueprints from the US Navy. And so on and so forth. Greed and profit was what was important.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14