19-04-2015, 06:13 PM
Dawn Meredith Wrote:I would also have liked to see the film delve into another important aspect of this story: the reason for flooding the black community with cheap crack.
Perhaps this should be a film in its own right? Call the film The Disenfranchised, or The Doping of Poor America. For me this is the aspect that is really important. The CIA and White House wanted bucket-fulls of un-vouchered funds to pursue an illegal foreign policy. Doping up the black and hispanic and poor neighbourhoods of America was seen as being unimportant in the scheme of things. It's the sort of thinking that wealthy, authoritarian and powerful men construct because they are not only intrinsically racist, but poor-ist too.
And they just love to put down the less fortunate others who can't afford to dine in expensive clubs or holiday on super yachts. The feeling of power it gives intoxicates them. But it also dehumanizes them.
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