04-01-2011, 06:37 PM
Thanks Ed. That clarifies the picture.
As regards the British end of things, the City of London (not London in its entirety, but the business district) is, indeed, governed locally under the terms of the Corporation of London. It has its own police - the City police (who never-the-less operate under the Metropolitan police force) and it has its own Lord Mayor - but not Boris of Bullingdon Boys fame, but the lesser known and lesser spotted variety, namely Alderman (now Mayor, of course) Michael Bear.
All, doubtless, drinking members of the Freemason Arms....
A couple of decades ago (it seems like as hundred though) I used to be a member of one of the City ward clubs that fed, like a gin river, in to the City's "Worshipful" (a nod and wink to the initiated!) Livery Clubs, and thence into the domain of Alderman politics. All, or I suppose almost all, of these "associations" led inexorably to the City's rolled up trouser leg and lambskin apron brigade.
But not a bad drinking bunch as a matter of fact.
As regards the British end of things, the City of London (not London in its entirety, but the business district) is, indeed, governed locally under the terms of the Corporation of London. It has its own police - the City police (who never-the-less operate under the Metropolitan police force) and it has its own Lord Mayor - but not Boris of Bullingdon Boys fame, but the lesser known and lesser spotted variety, namely Alderman (now Mayor, of course) Michael Bear.
All, doubtless, drinking members of the Freemason Arms....
A couple of decades ago (it seems like as hundred though) I used to be a member of one of the City ward clubs that fed, like a gin river, in to the City's "Worshipful" (a nod and wink to the initiated!) Livery Clubs, and thence into the domain of Alderman politics. All, or I suppose almost all, of these "associations" led inexorably to the City's rolled up trouser leg and lambskin apron brigade.
But not a bad drinking bunch as a matter of fact.
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