06-12-2016, 09:54 AM
My thinking, when settling on the 1939 date, was centred on the origin of the CFR's War & Peace Studies project (1939-45) which was the period when the US elite saw (and grabbed) the opportunity to become the world's dominant power/global hegemony effectively taking over from the dwindling British empire.
The British elite (the Oxford Group / Rhodes kindergarten) saw the necessity for this transition of power by the latter part of the 1800's. They went on to found Chatham House following WWI and jointly initiated the CFR as the "sister" entity of the RIIA to become the principal tool of the Anglo-American Establishment.
Most everything else that has subsequently followed - for argument's sake we can call it a gradual consolidation - is pretty well summed up in Ivan's post today in this same folder (The Hidden Forces Guiding the US Government).
Which is really a long way round to repeat what I said above about how surprised can anyone really be that the US has become a failed state in recent decades?
It's all been hanging out there in plain view: COG, the suspension of Habeas Corpus, the modifications to the Posse Comitatus Act, the changes to the Insurrection Act, state sanctioned torture, state sanctioned kidnapping, state sanctioned murder, the militarization of law enforcement and so on and so forth.
The British elite (the Oxford Group / Rhodes kindergarten) saw the necessity for this transition of power by the latter part of the 1800's. They went on to found Chatham House following WWI and jointly initiated the CFR as the "sister" entity of the RIIA to become the principal tool of the Anglo-American Establishment.
Most everything else that has subsequently followed - for argument's sake we can call it a gradual consolidation - is pretty well summed up in Ivan's post today in this same folder (The Hidden Forces Guiding the US Government).
Which is really a long way round to repeat what I said above about how surprised can anyone really be that the US has become a failed state in recent decades?
It's all been hanging out there in plain view: COG, the suspension of Habeas Corpus, the modifications to the Posse Comitatus Act, the changes to the Insurrection Act, state sanctioned torture, state sanctioned kidnapping, state sanctioned murder, the militarization of law enforcement and so on and so forth.
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