24-10-2013, 10:17 AM
Malcolm Pryce Wrote:I must say I find the outrage rather surprising (although of course totally understandable). In the aftermath of the Princess Diana affair it emerged that the US security services had transcripts of her mobile phone calls. Which meant that even back then they were monitoring the phones of the Royals, and thus it must have been obvious that they were also routinely bugging the phones of Western leaders. Looking back, it is surprising how generally muted the response was to the revelation that Lady Di's calls were being bugged. (Or did I miss it?) How come there was so little fuss made about it? Or did we perhaps assume she was somehow a special case, and they wouldn't dream of bugging anyone else?
If memory serves, Di & Charles mobile phone calls were hacked and rumours - denied at the time - were that GCHQ were the tappers, hence the NSA access.
This is by no means a new phenomenon, digital comms meta mining by the NSA and GCHQ was happening back in the 1990's. What is new is that there is evidence of it and people are now angry about it.
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