30-10-2013, 11:04 AM
Of course, in the same way that the question needs to be asked about defining "democracy" in the first post of this thread, the same question needs to be asked about defining what "national security" actually means to these people, so that the rest of us also know what exactly they are saying when they state Snowden "harmed" it.
This may seem very pedantic points, but language is used to hide and twist meaning by politicians and state functionaries.
In the case in point "national security" seems to mean US commercial interests - in that the bulk of the focus of data collection was of a commercial nature. One might, therefore, be forgiven for assuming that the term "democracy" has a similar commercial or elite reality - which has little or nothing to do what the rest of us plebs actually think the word democracy means (i.e., our domestic political rights).
This may seem very pedantic points, but language is used to hide and twist meaning by politicians and state functionaries.
In the case in point "national security" seems to mean US commercial interests - in that the bulk of the focus of data collection was of a commercial nature. One might, therefore, be forgiven for assuming that the term "democracy" has a similar commercial or elite reality - which has little or nothing to do what the rest of us plebs actually think the word democracy means (i.e., our domestic political rights).
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