03-07-2013, 03:21 PM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Magda Hassan Wrote:Some how I think it more likely that they have been selling the data for ages and it is just now they are letting the customers in on it.
I agree.
There are endless profiles of our behaviour, based on a few mouseclicks, some browsing and even fewer transactions.
Still, given the endless spread of capitalist values, it's no surprise that homo sapiens is reduced to:
I Shop, Therefore I Am.
Unless, of course, you enjoy wine - in which case it would be:
I Drink, Therefore I Am.
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