11-05-2010, 05:33 PM
(my bolding below)
Really? I've seen nothing that convinces me that bankers know the game is over and that a "clean slate" is imminent.
On the contrary, it seems to me that that their financial heist and subsequent taxpayer funded bailout has been spectacularly successful and is set to become the template for future generations of smirking, eye-winking, nose-touching Lords of the Universe.
Quote:Bank lobbyists know that the financial game is over. They are playing for the short run. The financial sector’s aim is to take as much bailout money as it can and run, with large enough annual bonuses to lord it over the rest of society after the Clean Slate finally arrives.
Really? I've seen nothing that convinces me that bankers know the game is over and that a "clean slate" is imminent.
On the contrary, it seems to me that that their financial heist and subsequent taxpayer funded bailout has been spectacularly successful and is set to become the template for future generations of smirking, eye-winking, nose-touching Lords of the Universe.
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