Category: The Shadow Knows

Hey there lonely boy

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Even Tony Soprano went to a shrink when he was having problems:

Happy birthday, Carl Jung

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https://youtu.be/eTBs-2cloEI

Such a fascinating man and a real genius:

Legendary Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875–June 6, 1961), along with his frenemy Freud, is considered the founding father of modern analytical psychology. He coined the concepts of collective consciousness and introverted vs. extroverted personality, providing the foundation for the popular Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Though famously accused of having lost his soul, Jung had a much more heartening view of human nature than Freud and memorably wrote that “the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”On October 22 of 1959, BBC’s Face to Face — an unusual series of pointed, almost interrogative interviews seeking to “unmask public figures” — aired a segment on Jung, included in the 1977 anthology C.G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters (public library). Eighty-four at the time and still working, he talks to New Statesman editor John Freeman about education, religion, consciousness, human nature, and his temperamental differences with Freud, which sparked his study of personality types.

Farmer suicide rates rising

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Farm

This doesn’t bode well for our food supply:

“Think about trying to live today on the income you had 15 years ago.” That’s how agriculture expert Chris Hurt describes the plight facing U.S. farmers today.

The unequal economy that’s emerged over the past decade, combined with patchy access to health care in rural areas, have had a severe impact on the people growing America’s food. Recent data shows just how much. Farmers are dying by suicide at a higher rate than any other occupational group, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The suicide rate in the field of farming, fishing and forestry is 84.5 per 100,000 people — more than five times that of the population as a whole. That’s even as the nation overall has seen an increase in suicide rates over the last 30 years.

The CDC study comes with a few caveats. It looked at workers over 17 different states, but it left out some major agricultural states, like Iowa. And the occupational category that includes these workers includes small numbers of workers from related occupational groups, like fishing and forestry. (However, agricultural workers make up the vast majority of the “farming, fishing and forestry” occupational group.)

However, the figures in the CDC study mirror other recent findings. Rates of suicide have risen fastest, and are highest, in rural areas, the CDC found in a different study released earlier this month. Other countries have seen this issue, too — including India, where 60,000 farmer suicides have been linked to climate change.

New Jersey expands child pornography definition; increases penalties

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Man arrested on child pornography charges in Malakand

A new law that went into effect on Feb. 1, 2018 in New Jersey seeks to ensure that individuals found in possession of child pornography are consistently charged and convicted, and to ensure that all types of content where children are exploited fall under the definition of child pornography.

The law, dubbed the “Child Erotica” law, extends the definition of child pornography to include any photograph or video that portrays children sexually or being exploited, not just ones where children are nude. Additionally, the law allows prosecutors to charge individuals who knowingly conspired to create and maintain a child pornography distribution network as leaders of a child pornography distribution network – which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $150,000 fine.

“These changes in the law were designed to eliminate what law enforcement considered loopholes in the child pornography law,” said John B. Fabriele, a New Jersey Sex Crimes Attorney. “What this change will also do is open up individuals to more serious charges than they would have otherwise seen due to the fact that some of the content that they might not consider ‘pornographic’ now falls under the definition.” If an individual has in excess of 100,000 items of child pornography, they are immediately exposed to higher possible fines and punishments.

Under the previous child pornography laws, individuals charged were often able to avoid serious jail time and harsh penalties; many were only given probation. The new law will greatly increase the likelihood that an individual caught possessing child pornography is punished. Additionally, the new law will allow prosecutors to charge individuals earlier, before they are able to become super-possessors of more elicit forms of child pornography.

“Possession of child pornography charges are serious, and they are taken seriously by prosecutors,” said John B. Fabriele. “The jailtime and financial penalties associated with these charges are hefty, and the stigma associated with the charges and convictions rightfully follow those that are guilty for decades.” When the guilty are charged and convicted, it is a win for those children that are or would be subject to exploitation.