16-11-2008, 11:20 AM
Paul Rigby Wrote:The question then arises - what is to be done? Well, one useful place to begin is at the inauguration. A very large, very silent protest: let the banners do the talking. And after?
And after the bannerfest at said inauguration dear boy, Obama and his team will go back to the White House, pour themselves a large bourbon, sip it, smile, and then go about doing what they've been hired to do.
None of which has anything whatsoever to do with what the US voter wants him to do or voted him into power to do.
The entire election process in the US is a serial Circus Maximus with sly clowns predominating.
But on a more humourous serious note, I watched Robin Williams in concert last night. He sounded like an Omaba groupie with Obama this and Obama that and Obama everything - ending with a gag about Obama having Kennedy blood.
Don't these showbiz guys ever get embarrassed hiking up their petticoats to give their favourite politicians a quick glimpse?
Damn! There's my cynical slip showing 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