13-05-2009, 11:10 AM
The strategy is debt bondage obviously, and was one of the techniques to force feudalism on to the world by default.
I haven't owned a credit card for 20 years, and have accrued no financial debts in that period either. And intend to remain that way. I couldn't care less about having - or not having - a credit rating, being sued etc etc. I have no assets to speak of and the old saying that "you can't get blood out of a stone", is absolutely true.
Once you attain these giddy heights there is little leverage that can be dangled over you and that is incredibly liberating. Their dream is not my dream. Wealth is the long, slow road of self-hypnotic illusion.
But I do appreciate this position it is not for everyone.
I haven't owned a credit card for 20 years, and have accrued no financial debts in that period either. And intend to remain that way. I couldn't care less about having - or not having - a credit rating, being sued etc etc. I have no assets to speak of and the old saying that "you can't get blood out of a stone", is absolutely true.
Once you attain these giddy heights there is little leverage that can be dangled over you and that is incredibly liberating. Their dream is not my dream. Wealth is the long, slow road of self-hypnotic illusion.
But I do appreciate this position it is not for everyone.
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