03-12-2014, 08:58 AM
A really interesting article, Lauren.
I wonder if this was part of the Neocon plan all along, to damage and destroy Europe as a currency competitor and trading bloc? It seemed sheer idiocy to many to impose sanctions on Russia and to act they way the US and Europe did. But the US had nothing to lose with that strategy. Europe did. Common sense tells us that someone with a much needed and in demand commodity will always find a customer no matter what; whereas someone who is in desperate need of that commodity has extremely limited choices of supply and is in a junior position.
The words "just deserts" springs to mind.
I wonder if this was part of the Neocon plan all along, to damage and destroy Europe as a currency competitor and trading bloc? It seemed sheer idiocy to many to impose sanctions on Russia and to act they way the US and Europe did. But the US had nothing to lose with that strategy. Europe did. Common sense tells us that someone with a much needed and in demand commodity will always find a customer no matter what; whereas someone who is in desperate need of that commodity has extremely limited choices of supply and is in a junior position.
The words "just deserts" springs to mind.
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