16-02-2014, 09:13 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:Just proves that you can be lacking in all sorts of human qualities like intelligence, self reflection and compassion and still get to be a billionaire. Never fails to amaze me why these idiots get any interviews at all. Like they have the solution to anything. Most should be embarrassed to be in the same room/planet as him.
Yep, it seems to me too, that we have sat by idly and allowed the media to create the illusion that those who's only real mark has been the amassing of wealth have been framed as the true purveyors of human endeavour and civilisation. It's a completely ridiculous and false setting.
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