04-03-2009, 12:04 PM
Yes, thanks Tosh. It is a public disgrace that Celerino Castillo has been sentenced to prison.
For many years I have argued that making drugs legal would limit if not the relentless growth of organized crime and would lead to a substantial evaporation of criminal money. But I'm no longer of this view.
I now consider the state to be so far in bed with organized crime and moreover, it engages in its own criminal activity as and when required that decriminalizing narcotics wouldn't change a thing.
For many years I have argued that making drugs legal would limit if not the relentless growth of organized crime and would lead to a substantial evaporation of criminal money. But I'm no longer of this view.
I now consider the state to be so far in bed with organized crime and moreover, it engages in its own criminal activity as and when required that decriminalizing narcotics wouldn't change a thing.
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