22-07-2014, 03:26 PM
Magda Hassan Wrote:Peter Presland Wrote:...but I sense an air of near desperation in the post MH17 Anglo-US posturing; as though they sense just how close they are to their whole house of cards collapsing around their ears.Not everyone has a death wish nor to they intend to go down with the ship. Some are looking for the life boats right now.
Peter Presland Wrote:
Quote: I think if Germany goes over to the other side it will be all over red rover for the US $ sooner rather than later.
I'm with you Maggie and you too, Peter. I'm not sure if wishful thinking is colouring my spectacles, but it really does have that sense of the beginning of the end to the whole NATO thing. For me, I think the destruction of the Euro (in my mind a deeply political event) was the trigger point.
However, might we also be seeing Orwell's 1984 in action here with "perpetual war" amongst a US led Oceania (UK and USA waged from Airstrip One - formerly Great Britain) and a Eurasian sphere of continental Europe and Russia, with an emerging Eastaia also coming into being?
The Wiki intro on 1984 is worth reading for it is worryingly accurate (or maybe it's just me?):
Quote:Nineteen Eighty-Four
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nineteen Eighty-Four, sometimes published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by George Orwell published in 1949.[SUP][1][/SUP][SUP][2][/SUP] The novel is set in Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public manipulation, dictated by a political system euphemistically namedEnglish Socialism (or Ingsoc in the government's invented language, Newspeak) under the control of a privileged Inner Partyelite that persecutes all individualism and independent thinking as "thoughtcrimes".[SUP][3][/SUP]
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