03-12-2008, 02:47 PM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:Frightening stuff! While the immediate threat was theatre for pressuring the Congress to hand over the cash - "all your cash - and keep your hands above your head and move real slow, like - remember I've got this gun pointed right at your heart." - such a scenario is IMO in the medium-term possible and would be the worst of all possible scenarios. Beyond bad. Fatal for America, if we 'ain't already on the path to certain demise.... Reminds me of the way LBJ used to get persons to do his bidding and keep their silences after the JFK Assassination - threats of nuclear war. Where do they get these criminals they stock the government with?....
It's like one of those Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns, "A Fistful of Dollars", followed by "For a Few Dollars More" and finally "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly".
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