11-06-2013, 03:55 PM
Quote:I liked this part of the film. It seemed genuine. We see home videos of Awlaki's son doing youthful happy things. JS tries to understand why the US would deliberately kill a 16 year old kid? Which is a good question. Perhaps America is ruled by a murderous Cult of Death.
My bolding.
I have often wondered if the US is ruled by a Cult of Death. Is it such an alarming idea? After all, Germany 1933-45 was increasingly in the grip of a death's head cult, that indiscriminately murdered in the millions. Stalin's Russia was even worse in its death toll and that, in turn, was usurped by Mao's China. Since WWII the US has started more wars than Rome could've dreamt of and the death toll has been phenomenal.
Maybe it's Cult of War - almost the same thing, but not quite the same psychological impact as a Cult of Death perhaps. After all, we are now all used to war. One or more wars are raging in some part of the world every waking day.
If we look at the evidence of history, both ancient and contemporary, the conclusion has to be that there has been an active Cult of Death in operation most of that time.
As Jung wrote:
Quote:We need more understanding of the human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself. He is the great danger, and we are pitifully unaware of it. We know nothing of man, far too little. His psyche should be studied, because we are the origin of all coming evil
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