03-12-2015, 08:48 AM
It's enough to make you weep. Far more British people were against getting involved militarily in Syria then were for it. But our "representative" MP's vote against their wishes (how's that for representation?) and now we're in yet another fucking war that, for me, can and probably will lead anywhere and everywhere. The Neocons get their way again.
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