15-03-2010, 10:50 AM
I think the description of "digital Panopticon" nicely sums up what is going on. Not least because the Panopticon used fear as an instrument of control.
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