26-02-2010, 04:25 PM
Magda Hassan Wrote:David Guyatt Wrote:The more I think about this, the more thoughts occur. Odd that?:hahaha:
I can see how town squares will become emptified of gangs of youth. When I was young, Mozart and classical music most certainly was highly painful to listen to.
But there's the problem of "blowback". One action causes a reaction.
I can see how emtified town squares will become fullified with gangs of senior citizens, rampaging in their biker suits, threatening ordinary shoppers with entanglement in their crutches and zimmer frames, arbitrarily articulating the English language with precision and hand conducting symphonic numbers with relish.
Terrible.
They played loud and constant Barry Manilow at some place in Sydney near the beach where there were yobbos and hoons in cars were congregating. It did seem successful in dispersing them. But Barry may well disperse anything. Too much of a good thing and all....:elefant:
There is a place for everything, I know. But to thrust that onto the ordinary law-abiding citizens of Oz is surely a crime against humanity?
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