15-10-2014, 08:52 AM
I would argue that whilst profit is clearly a powerful motivating force for big media, there is a second force in play too, namely to adhere to the official US propaganda line about itself. For example, anything the US does militarily or spook-wise overseas is for freedom and democracy and, therefore, for the better of mankind (or at least is benign), and that the US political machine at home is honest and represents a full, functioning and exemplary model of democracy and freedom --- and that anything that contradicts these two essentially and permanently reinforced media points are to be ignored and disparaged.
This is simply because the US government - like most governments - are in place to represent the wishes of the wealthy elite and to support, by any means necessary, big business interests at home and overseas.
It's a shadow play.
Not a democracy.
This is simply because the US government - like most governments - are in place to represent the wishes of the wealthy elite and to support, by any means necessary, big business interests at home and overseas.
It's a shadow play.
Not a democracy.
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