02-03-2014, 09:56 AM
It is probably my ingrained cynicism about these things, but as I see it, the designer Muslim "enemy" is decreasing in significance these days, and so I can't help wondering if there has become an urgent need for a new bogey man to keep the West's war machine at full production - and also to divert home woes by projecting them overseas - politics and business as usual in other words?
And what better new enemy than the old one - the one that worked magnificently for almost 70 years?
And what better new enemy than the old one - the one that worked magnificently for almost 70 years?
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