18-02-2009, 12:15 PM
Quote:government of national unity. Cool. :top:
I have always also liked "democracy", "freedom" as euphemisms to befuddle the public to believe that they have a say in what happens to them -- but the ongoing banking-collapse-cum-rescue-packages prove beyond a shadow of doubt that Mr. & Mrs. Public are simply treated as forceable blood donors to keep the Vampires in the pink.
But if I were to think of a future name for what is shortly coming it would have to be the "Government of Peace and Reconciliation" -- that is "reconciliation" in the book-keeping sense, and "peace" as in the mythical goal of perpetual war.
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