26-04-2010, 03:04 PM
Quote:On the other side of the debate were the people who argued Goldman
wasn't guilty of anything except being "too smart" and really, really
good at making money. This side of the argument was based almost
entirely on the Randian belief system, under which the leaders of
Goldman Sachs appear not as the cheap swindlers they look like to me,
but idealized heroes, the saviors of society.
It's almost passe to say that not more than three decades ago, the mob were being surveilled, prosecuted and imprisoned for performing these types of scams.
The point being, I suppose, that taken to its extreme - and Goldman certainly is that extreme - financial capitalism is nothing other than organized crime where fleecing the public is regarded as the set standard of acceptable behaviour required of made men.
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