17-11-2014, 09:01 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:China is actually on to a good thing reclaiming all the rare minerals used in electronic items. The UK will kick itself that they didn't do it for themselves. We have a similar thing happening here re the councils dumping the recyclables in the land fill rubbish and not recycling even though the residents carefully sort their rubbish.
Yes, I believe a similar things has happened/is happening here too. We all carefully sort out the waste, it is then collected separately, but dumped in the same landfill site. An exercise in futility.
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