22-02-2009, 12:45 PM
I don't think it's a lack of imagination Magda, but a lack of balls. They could tax the rich but they fear they'd become a pariah in the business world who would begin pulling out of Ireland in droves.
Their reasoning would be that it's easier all round to just grab a little from the many. That, after all, is what the tax system has always been focused on doing.
I think we are now well past fairness and balance and "representation" these days. The entrenched dogma is that all business is good. No matter what it does. Even criminal acts. Even plundering on a Galactic scale.
The world is now completely upside down.
Their reasoning would be that it's easier all round to just grab a little from the many. That, after all, is what the tax system has always been focused on doing.
I think we are now well past fairness and balance and "representation" these days. The entrenched dogma is that all business is good. No matter what it does. Even criminal acts. Even plundering on a Galactic scale.
The world is now completely upside down.
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