04-04-2013, 01:07 PM
Adele Edisen Wrote:David,
This business of North Korea is worrisome, and I have been concerned about how the US might be working the "puppet strings" to get us into a fighting position. I do hope that it doesn't get there, ever. But, as we have come to understand from history, it does not take much to initiate a war, regardless of who fires the first shot.
Adele
I hear what you say, Adele. I can see how a limited nuclear war a long, long way away, could possibly be seen to be a benefit to the US - assuming that the spirit of Curtis LeMay still lives inside the Pentagon. It would send a very clear message to everyone, including Iran, and Putin, and China. Not least, the continuing meltdown in global finance and economics probably makes the idea almost irresistible.
As we know, Kennedy resisted the Generals and got himself killed for it. Obama doesn't have it in him to do that.
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