20-05-2014, 08:06 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:Baden Powell intended it as a youth paramilitary outfit for the Empire though. I think this is just true to it's creator's mission. In his day it was the dreaded Huns and Bolsheviks. Today 'terrorists'.
Quote:In 1910 Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell decided to retire from the Army, allegedly on the advice of King Edward VII, who, allegedly, suggested that he could better serve his country by promoting Scouting.
On the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Baden-Powell put himself at the disposal of the War Office. No command was given him. Lord Kitchener said: "he could lay his hand on several competent divisional generals but could find no one who could carry on the invaluable work of the Boy Scouts." It was widely rumoured that Baden-Powell was engaged in spying, and intelligence officers took great care to spread the myth.
The minds and hearts of children are prized by authoritarians. So they can be chained and restrained.
Baden-Powell loved boys.
Wrong thread but hey...
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