04-03-2010, 11:01 AM
Thanks for this Ed. It's an important essay.
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Ergo, it is far more important to know who are members of the JCS then it is to vote who is President. The latter is action with no meaning that keeps you happily in the dark, whereas the former, at least, keeps you informed of the nature of those who make the big decisions in you name but without your consent.
Quote:"If trends continue as they have during the last fifteen years, we shall soon reach this point of no return, and can only anticipate interminable wars, disguised as noble gestures for peace. Such an era could only culminate in a third world war which might well, as Arnold J. Toynbee has suggested, leave only the pygmies in remote jungles, or even the apes and ants, to carry on 'the cultural traditions' of mankind."
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Quote:"State Capitalism" characterizes America's government - business partnership running a war economy for greater power and wealth at the expense of a nation in decline, corrupted leadership, lost industrialization, crumbling infrastructure, and suffering millions on their own, uncared for, unwanted, ignored, and forgotten.
Ergo, it is far more important to know who are members of the JCS then it is to vote who is President. The latter is action with no meaning that keeps you happily in the dark, whereas the former, at least, keeps you informed of the nature of those who make the big decisions in you name but without your consent.
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