01-06-2013, 06:33 PM
Malcolm Pryce Wrote:Thanks for these responses. David thanks for the link, and Magda many thanks for that long and thoughtful post. I must admit, I hadn't seen the attack on the Welfare state in the broader historical context. Interesting. Now I'm going to ponder that other hole in history that puzzled me even at school. How we seemed to leapfrog from those images of the German folk taking their million Mark notes home in wheelbarrows in the 20s, economic basket case with six million unemployed in the early 30s, and then, barely a few years later, mighty world power with Panzer divisions stretching from Spain to Statlingrad. As economic recoveries go, that was pretty quick. I remember the 4 o'clock bell ringing and my dopey old history teacher shutting his copy of Tragedy and Hope with the words, 'OK, children that's enough about the Illuminati bankers for this week. Don't forget your homework on Montagu Norman'. No, actually, come to think of it, I think I was away when we did that.
Malcolm, you might try (if you haven't already) reading Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler by Professor Antony Sutton. Tony was a great old English gentleman, now sadly deceased, who during the war was a sergeant in Army intelligence who, at the end of the war, searched for Martin Bormann. He was one man who never sold his soul to the devil, although the latter came calling. It is also available as a free pdf download. Also, Charles Higham's Trading With the Enemy, also freely available in pdf format.
More interesting, or at least as equally interesting, is just how Germany has grown to become the financial master of Europe after two world wars - with all the massive damage to infrastructure, economic structure etc., that this entails. The short answer if the massive wealth gathered from plunder during WWII was taken offshore and otherwise laundered and the repatriated after 1955 when Germany (West) became a sovereign state again. For that story you could do worse than read Paul Manning's truly excellent Martin Bormann - Nazi in Exile.
As a sort of "trilogy" these books peel away all the propaganda bullshit and replace that with cold, hard heart-breaking facts.
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