18-01-2014, 11:06 AM
Lauren Johnson Wrote:This is a bit of a house of cards.
If the conflict in the ME endures at the pleasure of trans-national interests, and if it is now no longer considered useful, then why is it going to be "resolved" now?
Thesis: the coming peace in the ME is a part of the larger strategy of the pivot to Asia featured in an recent Obama speech. This is not to say that Obama is the brilliant strategist laying out the grand design -- but he is announcing a piece of the grand design his sponsors prepared for the rest of us.
The implication then is to "South Africanize" the Israel problem and move on big time to the growing China problem?
Certainly China is flexing its military muscle these days, with the recent China-Japan stand off.
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