18-06-2013, 11:05 AM
I am not convinced that Naomi Woolf is a fifth column spook - although for good order's sake I can't write the idea off completely.
My main thoughts on this whole affair is that people do look at these big events differently from each other. Most of us can see things two different ways, the cynical and the ultra-ultra cynical. Sadly, the intensely duplicitous world we now live in has made us far more paranoid than hitherto, and everything is open to several different interpretations.
The Swowden revelations seems to me to have triggered this syndrome more than most.
I suspect we're all going to have to get used to this Janus face sort of thinking from now on.
My main thoughts on this whole affair is that people do look at these big events differently from each other. Most of us can see things two different ways, the cynical and the ultra-ultra cynical. Sadly, the intensely duplicitous world we now live in has made us far more paranoid than hitherto, and everything is open to several different interpretations.
The Swowden revelations seems to me to have triggered this syndrome more than most.
I suspect we're all going to have to get used to this Janus face sort of thinking from now on.
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