25-04-2009, 05:37 PM
For many years now I have felt that economics is a pseudo profession of spineless twisters.
This observation has been drawn from much past interaction with economists and reguar attempts to get them to commit to any predictions they make. They never do. There is always a caveat. Personally I liken them to the junior partners of meteorologists, because they are just as likely to get it wrong - often terribly so - than right.
Except that meteorologists do make predictions that they commit to. And they get it right more often than they get it wrong.
This observation has been drawn from much past interaction with economists and reguar attempts to get them to commit to any predictions they make. They never do. There is always a caveat. Personally I liken them to the junior partners of meteorologists, because they are just as likely to get it wrong - often terribly so - than right.
Except that meteorologists do make predictions that they commit to. And they get it right more often than they get it wrong.
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