07-09-2018, 05:45 PM
Magda Hassan Wrote:I remember hearing an interview on the radio some yars ago now 25 or 30. The person interviewed whose name I do not recall but I do recall he was an academic in geography, was discussing the 'surplus' males on the planet and what was going to happen to them. This was as a result of mechanisation of so many industries in which males would work. Especially the unskilled work. So what was the solution? Increased leisure time? Job sharing? Reskilling? Training for new jobs? Funding for work that needs to be done but is currently done by unpaid people? No. The answer was it would be likely these 'surplus men' (aka humans) would be used for wars. Manufactured wars to use up the surplus males. A business model because there are more profits and better outcomes, for some, in war.
Gawd, it's so depressing isn't it. On the one hand war keeps the defence (actually offence) industries, the banks who finance them, the intelligence and security sectors and the rest of the greed crowd in clover. On the other hand war is excellent for getting rid of the world's "useless eater's" as Kissinger (I believe?) once stated.
Both dovetail with each other in a Mephistophelean pact of utter evil.
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