12-03-2010, 07:18 PM
I read Lord Simmo’s latest galactic proclamation with interest. If Uncle Joe Stalin were to have written Mein Kampf this, I think, is what it would be like.
To invite Peter to become a moderator of that place, where he was expected to devote his time willingly and for free for that acknowledged difficult task (and, I might add, in the full knowledge of his well known political and conspiracy views - that haven’t changed one jot in the years I have known him), and then to excoriate him publicly in the way that has happened is a disgrace. For his generosity of service alone, he might have expected far better treatment.
He should have been given more.
But then you have to have a modicum of honesty and civility to act in a just and civil way. To me ingrained vileness and pomposity seems more to be the underlying attitude there.
But what continues to amaze me most is that so many people who annunciate their belief in justice, and who appear to fight the good fight, day in and day out, are content to continue to show fealty and supplicate themselves to Uncle John’s dictatorial terms of service.
My way or the highway, indeed...
To invite Peter to become a moderator of that place, where he was expected to devote his time willingly and for free for that acknowledged difficult task (and, I might add, in the full knowledge of his well known political and conspiracy views - that haven’t changed one jot in the years I have known him), and then to excoriate him publicly in the way that has happened is a disgrace. For his generosity of service alone, he might have expected far better treatment.
He should have been given more.
But then you have to have a modicum of honesty and civility to act in a just and civil way. To me ingrained vileness and pomposity seems more to be the underlying attitude there.
But what continues to amaze me most is that so many people who annunciate their belief in justice, and who appear to fight the good fight, day in and day out, are content to continue to show fealty and supplicate themselves to Uncle John’s dictatorial terms of service.
My way or the highway, indeed...
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