15-09-2014, 11:15 AM
Ever growing political will to go to war here in the UK. This could soon include ground troops (I suspect it will) - if local middle east nations won't stump of soldiers of their own.
Why is it that we in the west just stagger from one war to another?
Oh yummy, yum-yum. More war, more military sales, more profits, lots more back-handers, lots less domestic introversion, continuing control over foreign minerals.... everyone's a winner.
Except those poor sods who have their limbs bombed off or are made dead.
But fuck them, they don't count do they --- they're just battle cattle.
Why is it that we in the west just stagger from one war to another?
Oh yummy, yum-yum. More war, more military sales, more profits, lots more back-handers, lots less domestic introversion, continuing control over foreign minerals.... everyone's a winner.
Except those poor sods who have their limbs bombed off or are made dead.
But fuck them, they don't count do they --- they're just battle cattle.
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