12-12-2014, 04:04 PM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:Tracy Riddle Wrote:Yeah, treatment of whistleblowers - there's another area where Obama's been just as bad as Bush, perhaps worse.
Sadly, not 'just as'...but much worse. Under Obama more whistleblowers have been prosecuted than all other administrations combined!...how'z that for 'change you can relay on'?!
The same thing happens here in the UK too. It's a strategy, I think. You get a conservative/republican government/president who relentlessly pushes the edge well past what is deemed acceptable by the populace (those who can be bothered or care, anyway). He/She eventually has to retire or is voted out of office and the other member of the tag-team, labour/democrat, get elected by the people with a released sigh, praying that they, at least, will reverse some of the awfulness that has happened. But all soon learn they are even worse that the first member of the tag team.
In this way the agenda always gets pushed further and further to the right, until today it is radically changed beyond recognition of a decade or two earlier. This, I think, is aimed at changing the world rapidly, rather than manufacturing change far more slowly - but inexorably towards the planned destination.
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