01-04-2013, 11:27 AM
The list missed Financial Capitalism:
You have two cows.
You sell four of them to a FE firm.
The financial engineering firm leverages them.
You now have a herd of 300 cows.
And also Democracy:
You have two cows.
You sell four of them to a FE firm.
The financial engineering firm leverages them.
You now have a herd of 300 cows.
And also Democracy:
DEMOCRACYYou have two cows.
Both vote electronically, so five votes get counted.
The wrong guy gets elected by three votes,
So he doesn't listen to the two cows.
They go back to chewing the cud as usual.
He bombs Iraq.
Both vote electronically, so five votes get counted.
The wrong guy gets elected by three votes,
So he doesn't listen to the two cows.
They go back to chewing the cud as usual.
He bombs Iraq.
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