16-04-2013, 05:38 PM
Lauren Johnson Wrote:Quote:For me, creating panic and fear would have been the probable objectives.
Other motives would be attacks on cultural symbols. Boston after all, and tea party are synonymous. The Boston marathon is a part of American culture. Eroding the faith in our way of life, our liberty, our freedom creates a vacuum that can be filled by darker faiths. Seig heil.
Aye. Like Blighty, your way of life is rapidly changing for the worse.
Liberty and freedom are long past. They went with 911 and were on the way out a couple of decades earlier than that.
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