23-02-2009, 01:34 PM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Consumers did not buy houses they knew they couldn't afford, they were sold those houses and the mortgage that came with them. That sales job was performed by people who by your own admission knew that the mortgage was never going to be paid under the original terms on its face - that doing so was a mathematical impossibility.
Blame the innocent in other words. We see this game in all sectors of life. Drug addicts are to blame for the importation of drugs - not the drug barons and elite who reap immense profits from selling misery and living hell.
It makes me sick to see this line of reasoning. But not unexpected, I think.
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