31-10-2010, 12:13 PM
Magda Hassan Wrote:You have got to be fucking joking??????
Having lived through the years of marketing horror that was the Sydney Olympics there is no way I would actually pay good money to go to some one elses corporate advertising big dick extravaganza but assuming I was mad enough to do so I would be cancelling my tickets and reservations and going to a nice quiet tropical island to watch handsome native boys climb coconut trees. Why on earth would any sentient being subject them selves to this? Let alone the poor natives of London.
Yeah.
I went to the recent Ryder Cup in Wales with my sons and grandson and a good time was had by all. Eventually.
But the entrance security came as a massive surprise. A small golf radio tuned into the Ryder Cup radio station that was lent to me by a friend was confiscated. On the other hand I could easily pay £10.00 and buy a new one inside the Course and, thereafter, carry this into the event without any trouble. Rucksacks bigger than 8 x 8 x 8 were forbidden and had to be turned in to be held in safe-keeping till the end of the day. Thus all waterproofs had to be worn and not carried, sandwiches and food was effectively binned (to be bought on-site of course) and mobile phones also had to be turned over to security. On site a hot sausage in a roll cost £6.50. It was a profit-fest. And the 40,000 "spectators" who were lucky to have spent nearly £100.00 a day to get in unbeknownst to them underwent a security check before tickets were "awarded" to them.
All this to be treated like garbage.
Never 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