Replies to post #177947 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[SilverSurfer]

Every emergency now becomes a pretext for bungling government action and expense. Since governments cannot pay for bailouts and increased public assistance out of revenue, there must be borrowing. Even in good economic times the U.S. government was far from living within its means. Now the situation has become aggravated, and government debt grows faster than the economy. Government becomes the parent, the citizens become children. And they will soon find that they are abused children. In Carl Jung’s Undiscovered Self, we read of the outbreak of a global “neurosis” which spreads through the adult population – facilitated by government. As the state intervention grows, the individual shrivels. The idealist uses the state to solve social problems, to cure the ills of society. But this cannot work, says Jung: “The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual. The more unrelated individuals are, the more consolidated the State becomes….”

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