20-06-2015, 09:00 AM
Danny Jarman Wrote:The past few days have been a scary example of the pure power of the media.
This is a Gadaffi-esque witch hunt. You would be forgiven to think Blatter is the 2nd coming of Hitler by reading the news in the last few days...
As much as I dislike Blatter and am glad to see him go, I do think there is a deeper agenda at play in all this, and my thoughts go to whether the 2018 world cup in Russia is going to be pulled as part of the ongoing bogey-men play against Putin. This is all a US play, which worries me. There seemed to be a desire to shift the control of FIFA from out of Blatter's corrupt control and into the hands of others just as likely corrupt. In other words this whole thing is a shift in who gains.
For me the elephant in the room remains the far east betting syndicates. Buying a world cup ever four years is small fare compared to the billions dropped each weekend on European football games, and especially in the premier league. The latter still have the media working their corner to make them appear blushing virgins in a monastery, when all the evidence points to them being thoroughly corrupt. The retired referee Howard Webb is the sole person appointing refs to officiate at premier league games week in week out. There is no oversight. And according to Omerta, 18 top games were fixed - they traded on these 18 and won on every one of them. Interestingly enough the Omerta's trading is based on mimicking the corruption in the marketplace and he's on a winning streak because of this and yet, lo and hehold! " Sportradar, Federbet, Early Warning, Interpol, Europol and the FA's Sports Betting Integrity Unit (sic) somehow fail to spot..." these fixes.
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