19-09-2014, 03:49 PM
Drew Phipps Wrote:Might I suggest that your suspicion should be directed less at the individual civil servants, who are generally good hardworking people, and more at the institutional practices that permit the bad ones to thrive, and directly, or indirectly, reward the corruption.
I tend to agree Drew, although there are plenty of individual cops who aren't trustworthy and many who are a lot worse that that. And I speak as someone who has cop friends, so I do understand the pressures put on them. Hence my point about being cynical of them unless or until they prove themselves to have integrity and honesty...
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