15-06-2013, 07:43 AM
Malcolm Pryce Wrote:The great thing about pilotless drones is you can win medals for bravery or earn your RAF 'Wings' without having to go abroad and get indigestion from all that foreign food. In the past it was only tin-pot dictators like Colonel Gaddafi or members of the British Royal family who could get a chestful of medals without doing anything remotely dangerous. Technology is a wonderful thing.
Do you mean our much beloved royals simply get gongs for doing absolutely nothing but posturing?
On reflection don't answer that.
My hopes for an MBE and elevation to the Order of the Garter - with hat fulls of Blighty scrambled eggs thrown in for free - might be jeopardised.
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Fortunately, this picture has been truncated below the waist otherwise you'd have been able to wonder at the OotP navel badge dangling there.
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