07-01-2011, 01:47 PM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:One of the most fascinating stories of the last month (and in fact, the last year of Wikileaks activity) has been the sheer incompetence of the media, faced with a story like this.
(my italics). The sheer incompetence of the media is a little like designer stubble. If there is a will to use a razor then it'll go away fast.
But there is no such will. On the contrary, the media favour press handouts from governments and corporations and are happy, nay delighted, to publish them without any sort of fact checking at all.
Because they favour the status quo.
It's all very comfy.
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