25-01-2014, 10:23 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:Lauren Johnson Wrote:bump:
Quote: The welfare state, warfare state, and corporate state are of a piece. The government interventions needed to assist well-connected economic interests and to carry out world hegemony create permanent structural economic problems and hardships for the most vulnerable in society. To buy off the victims and reduce the chance of civil strife, the power elite builds an intrusive welfare bureaucracy designed to toss crumbs to the trapped population. In other words, the welfare state is a mechanism of social control made necessary by the corporate-welfare/warfare state.
Indeed. The modern welfare state was created by 19th century warfare state actor Otto Von Bismark. Too keep European aristocracy from being murdered by their serfs and pawns. A profoundly reactionary policy. Yet most in the US and UK think it socialist.
It was a very interesting recognition that wages in the west - certainly here in the UK - were noticeably better during the cold war than after it ended. The fear of communism spreading west meant the population needed to be kept onside and treated well. Once it became clear that the Soviet Union was doomed (as I recall that was realised in elite circles almost a decade before it finally happened?), these more benevolent attitudes began to change.
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