03-04-2014, 02:08 PM
The problem Paul, is that you can't have ordinary members of the public voting AND making foreign and government policy?
The world and business would fall apart wouldn't it.
Democracy is not meant to be taken seriously. Obviously.
Democracy means that once in every five years you get to cast vote - something like casting a spell I suppose, but less efficacious --- assuming spells ever work anyway? The one I once cast resulted with the immediate arrival of a 10 inch pianist. And I thought my diction was good, even exemplary although I'd had a wee dram or two admittedly. It just goes to show you, right.
And at that time of voting you are allotted about 2 minutes to scratch a tick in a box next to a candidate's name, or otherwise deface a piece of paper with any number of appropriate obscenities, while you're standing in a cheaply constructed wooden voting kennel which they grandly call a "booth".
Btw, does Putin really have a big chopper? I ask because I want to know how you.... Never mind.
The world and business would fall apart wouldn't it.
Democracy is not meant to be taken seriously. Obviously.
Democracy means that once in every five years you get to cast vote - something like casting a spell I suppose, but less efficacious --- assuming spells ever work anyway? The one I once cast resulted with the immediate arrival of a 10 inch pianist. And I thought my diction was good, even exemplary although I'd had a wee dram or two admittedly. It just goes to show you, right.
And at that time of voting you are allotted about 2 minutes to scratch a tick in a box next to a candidate's name, or otherwise deface a piece of paper with any number of appropriate obscenities, while you're standing in a cheaply constructed wooden voting kennel which they grandly call a "booth".
Btw, does Putin really have a big chopper? I ask because I want to know how you.... Never mind.
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