18-11-2010, 05:26 PM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:Understood, but the anger level is at boiling point for more and more, and for each person it is also a matter of what they have or lack. You have a nest-egg and [I presume] secure home [and happy you do and only envious I don't]. I've just about nothing [in fact I'm fighting anew to not have my tiny bank account and just-about-nothing property seized - a last ditch battle engaged as I write; the greater part of what I once had all stolen long ago in USSA]; but either way I'll never again really have notin' but my wits and my dog - if I'm lucky a computer....so have little left to loose.... :motz:
Fortune or, indeed, misfortune, is not what is driving me on this, but rather one of a few possible future outcomes of what could easily happen when the great puffed-up Shadow finally bursts --- or is burst --- and the recognition of all that pent-up anger and frustration finally being unleashed and seeking a place to boil and vent.
When we look back in history, all the great Revolutions - Russian and French for example, have been covertly orchestrated by shadowy forces to usher in changes they desired.
All I'm saying is that I'm not content to become an unwitting pawn in such vile machinations and, therefore, prefer other more gradual outcomes where I retain some element of control.
Or to mangle the old Chinese proverb that it is better to inflict a thousand small cuts rather than one big deadly one. But beware, this is not to be confused with Confucius pondering the wisdom of giving wife grand piano when he could giver her upright organ instead?
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