12-06-2013, 09:52 AM
I saw something along these lines when I travelled through East Germany in the 1960's - but it was overt. It was also drab, militarised and the people thoroughly repressed. The machine gun watch towers, the soldiers eerily reminiscent of Nazi's checking papers, searching under vehicles and trains with mirrors and attack dogs, the wire wall extending across the entire border.
Even waving at international (i.e., "free") passengers on a train heading through the railway corridor to Berlin seemed a dangerous thing to do.
But this state of repression and fear was, as I said, overt and obvious. I can only imagine how mind bending it would be applied covertly - where it appears on the surface that everything is still the same -- or watching the daily TV and reading the newspapers where reports of sports and celebrities continues as if nothing has happened at all. An unacknowledged police state.
And if it happens in the US then it will almost certainly also happen throughout Europe and the rest of the West.
Even waving at international (i.e., "free") passengers on a train heading through the railway corridor to Berlin seemed a dangerous thing to do.
But this state of repression and fear was, as I said, overt and obvious. I can only imagine how mind bending it would be applied covertly - where it appears on the surface that everything is still the same -- or watching the daily TV and reading the newspapers where reports of sports and celebrities continues as if nothing has happened at all. An unacknowledged police state.
And if it happens in the US then it will almost certainly also happen throughout Europe and the rest of the West.
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