14-06-2014, 08:54 AM
Lauren Johnson Wrote:Our leaders seem to be choosing door number two. Why? I think they know that the world of Leave It To Beaver and Ozzie and Harriet is long gone and they are getting ready for the shit storm.
This is what I think too. Like all tyrants throughout history, they'd rather go down in flames than quit or do the right thing, and therefore they plan ahead for their one perennial fear - the people. Sooner or later the forced transference of wealth from the very many to the very few will result in rebellion. In the meantime developing a culture of fear with a de facto police state is the perennial solution.
All very sad.
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