18-01-2014, 06:27 PM
Tracy Riddle Wrote:I'm amazed at how many people I know who really think they are well-informed because they read/watch lots of corporate media, read books by mainstream academics, etc. You can't tell them anything that doesn't fit into their media matrix - you're a "conspiracy theorist."
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
but you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see
"Working Class Hero"/John Lennon
I think it's a very common feeling Tracy. I was just telling one friend who shares the sort of subject interests I do, how many of my other close friends, who are genuine and smart people whom I'm really very fond of, just don't want to know - or are too scared at the prospects of reprisal to discuss these matters openly. So much so, in fact, that my life is forcibly compartmentalized as a consequence.
But the same is equably true of my great interest in matters Jungian, so I'm rather used to it by now.
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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