18-02-2009, 11:31 PM
Damien Lloyd Wrote:David Guyatt Wrote:Quote:government of national unity.
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.
Oh how very true.
When I found out that I would no longer be working for the Department of Constitutional Affairs, and that my new department was going to be called the Ministry of Justice. I also thought it sounded very Orwellian as did most of the judiciary I spoke to.
But now I think it sounds like a group of super heroes who have banded together to fight for truth, justice and the "Corporate Fascist" way(hence all the new laws I've seen pass through, no right to free speach, no right to protest, no right to disagree, no right to a fair trial by a jury of peers, and the latest and in my opinion one of the scariest of the past few years the new amendment to the terrorism act 2006 that makes it illegal to photograph or record a police officer).
Streuth. Are they scared that "hello, hello, hello, wot's all this then" is somehow dangerous? Dixon of Dock Green would wilt in his size 11's.
What a bloody awful state of affairs.
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