24-06-2009, 11:31 AM
Some years ago I ruminated that this would eventually become a widespread practice simply because the logic of greed and social control - plus a bloody good belly-laugh by those in power - dictates that those afflicted by the state must pay for their punishment.
After all, we all pay taxes that pay the wages and infrastructure of the bureaucracy that employs traffic wardens to impose fines (further tax raising measures) on us, and police to impose speeding fines (but not solve crimes, oh no), and to underwrite government handouts (more of our tax) to the arms industry to underwrite arms exports to nations that are known in advance to be unable and even unwilling to fulfill their part of the contract by paying for said arms, material and services (in the UK its called the ECGD - "Export Credits Guarantee Department").
And much more besides.
After all, we all pay taxes that pay the wages and infrastructure of the bureaucracy that employs traffic wardens to impose fines (further tax raising measures) on us, and police to impose speeding fines (but not solve crimes, oh no), and to underwrite government handouts (more of our tax) to the arms industry to underwrite arms exports to nations that are known in advance to be unable and even unwilling to fulfill their part of the contract by paying for said arms, material and services (in the UK its called the ECGD - "Export Credits Guarantee Department").
And much more besides.
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