03-01-2009, 05:19 PM
Linda Minor Wrote:I totally agree, David. I have been reading several new books that have come out recently all at once, and what really seems to tie the lot together is Jennet Conant's book about Roald Dahl being an undercover spy for the Brits in order to find out whether the Americans were going to come into the war and whether FDR was going to keep the leftist Henry Wallace on as vice president. Wallace was adamant about the need to trash the British and French (and others') colonial empires after the war in the event the Americans were able to rescue those countries from the Nazis.
I haven't finished reading the last chapters, but was struck by who Dahl's sources were--Charles Marsh, the newspaper chain owner who bankrolled LBJ's rise being the primary source.
Thus it seems Lyndon, who was having a long-term affair with Marsh's girlfriend/wife Alice Glass, may have been promoted to the top with the help of this cabal of spies who were feeding information up the chain to God only knows who.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was a spy? Bloody hell! Gor blimey and streuth!
Do these people have no decency at all...
I just read his Wiki entry. Very surprising.
Interesting about Charles Marsh though. Another Brit connection to the whole "Bay of Pigs" thing.
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