11-02-2011, 03:11 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-02-2011, 03:46 PM by David Guyatt.)
There is also something else to consider. The name "Global Open" has another, deeper, more political significance, namely:
The Global Open Society.
Read George Soros' lecture to the European Policy Centre in November 2006 entitled "Europe as a Prototype Global Open Society", in which he highlights the work of Sir Karl Popper and his book "The Open Society".
Popper was one of the founders of the Mount Pelerin Society.
Maybe connected, maybe not. But it is an unusual name isn't it...
PS, Mont Pelerin is founded on principles of classical liberalism which, for example, considers mass starvation a good thing as it reduces population; that "men of higher rank" were governed by ambition, whereas ordinary men were governed by the twin motivators of greed and fear...
The Global Open Society.
Read George Soros' lecture to the European Policy Centre in November 2006 entitled "Europe as a Prototype Global Open Society", in which he highlights the work of Sir Karl Popper and his book "The Open Society".
Popper was one of the founders of the Mount Pelerin Society.
Maybe connected, maybe not. But it is an unusual name isn't it...
PS, Mont Pelerin is founded on principles of classical liberalism which, for example, considers mass starvation a good thing as it reduces population; that "men of higher rank" were governed by ambition, whereas ordinary men were governed by the twin motivators of greed and fear...
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