10-01-2015, 01:24 PM
Magda Hassan Wrote:What I find interesting is the stage management of the witnesses. In the recent Lindt cafe in Sydney hostage event I heard that all the surviving hostages and witnesses are not allowed to talk to the media. Under whose authority I don't know. But there are usually many personal interest stories about victims of crimes or even their friends and neighbours but there is nothing. I also understand that not everyone wants to talk to the media and that they are just ordinary people and not 'celebrities'. But there is nothing. They've had the burials, had the vigil, had the #illridewithyou hash tag, all the boquets have been collected and everyone has gone home and we all live happily ever after. Never to be mentioned again except in the past tense as some thing that once happened. We don't know the names of the other hostages or how they are doing how their injuries are healing. We don't know who shot whom. No ballistics. No reports. Nothing. Same in the French case. We know there were 12 killed - 2 policemen - 4 cartoonists/journalists. We don't know who the other 6 people are. I've seen a couple of short interviews with family members of the dead. That is all. So much media and so little information. Just the same video clips played over and over and the same talking points by the talking heads.
Witnesses being warned not to talk was also a feature of the Boston bombing if my memory serves.
Personally, and I suppose it will sound ghoulish, and I don't mean it that way, but I want to know the name of the policeman shot dead outside the Charlie building, where and when he will be buried, with police honours etc -- just to know that this was true, as I tend to distrust what might arguably be seen as staged video clips.
For my sins I harbour a little doubt - a teensy weeny one - that the two gunmen outside the offices of Charlie Hedbo - may not be the same of the two Kouachi brothers. I say this only because we only have the authorities word for it that they are one and the same, and the disparity in the military professionalism in the attack itself followed by the complete clumsiness in the scape continues to niggle at me.
Yours in cynicism.
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