16-05-2014, 03:09 PM
Bruno Paul Wrote:Thanks for your first answers.
Has this topic already been discussed on this forum (or elsewhere with an available link)?
If not, are you comfortable to discuss it here? (this is a honest and open question: this forum is open since 6 years old or more, so I do not know the habits).
My goal with the second article is obviously not to discuss a full, comprehensive , ready-to-use strategy, but only to ask you what you feel or think about the role of civil society, in the US and on a transnational level, in this respect.
I don't believe it has been directly discussed Bruno, and I'm sure we would all be comfortable to discuss it further. It is an important question.
I think several members feel quite strongly that, as Peter and Drew said above, using the existing channels to hope to change things is no longer feasible, as these are in the control of those who ultimately are responsible for the problems now facing us. The added problem is that the media is so thoroughly now part of the problem and is no longer an avenue of the solution to it.
But this is not just a problem for the USA. Here in the UK and elsewhere also in Europe, these centres of power are now the controlling factors in our lives. Democracy no longer exists effectively. We live in a political desert where the dressed up choices of the various political parties amounts to just more sand.
For me it has to be a grass roots thing to create change. Otherwise it will only get worse.
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