24-10-2014, 09:51 AM
It rarely ceases to amaze me just how much the media avoid so called sensitive subjects, rewrite history and shape the news and political agenda to create group thought front and centre. I should be used to it, I know.
It's like a house of cards ready to collapse - and all it will take is if the wind is allowed to get up enough force. Somehow it never does.
But I also sometimes think what mental juggling any honest, intelligent journalist must do to retain a job by not actually doing their job? It must cause some of them heartache. Others simply close their minds and count their monthly wage cheques and are glad to be in employment.
I've not researched it, but it strikes me that this is a speciality of the "five eyes" - with other NATO/SEATO members being less required because they did not participate in the intelligence product to the same extent. But I may just be imagining this.
But even so, if you are a member of the five eyes, kiss your arse farewell when it comes to any sense of genuine democratic involvement and if leaders need to be removed from office, or even killed, then that is what happens.
It's like a house of cards ready to collapse - and all it will take is if the wind is allowed to get up enough force. Somehow it never does.
But I also sometimes think what mental juggling any honest, intelligent journalist must do to retain a job by not actually doing their job? It must cause some of them heartache. Others simply close their minds and count their monthly wage cheques and are glad to be in employment.
I've not researched it, but it strikes me that this is a speciality of the "five eyes" - with other NATO/SEATO members being less required because they did not participate in the intelligence product to the same extent. But I may just be imagining this.
But even so, if you are a member of the five eyes, kiss your arse farewell when it comes to any sense of genuine democratic involvement and if leaders need to be removed from office, or even killed, then that is what happens.
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