04-03-2017, 04:08 PM
Sadly, it's not hard to fool idiots who are so compliant all the time, although you would've thought by now that simply everyone would've seen that that obvious ploy by now. But no. Stupid is as stupid thinks.
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