11-03-2015, 10:26 AM
To me it meets the criteria for this:
"Head I win, tails you lose" of a spinning coin. No matter which way it lands the US wins the bet.
The one escape from this fixed roulette game, I think, is that the BRICS experiment will ultimately be successful and that more and more nations are likely to sign up to participate in it. If that does happen - even if it takes a long time - then the dollar will ultimately diminish from less international demand and use.
Then watch another global imperial power go into a steep decline.
"Head I win, tails you lose" of a spinning coin. No matter which way it lands the US wins the bet.
The one escape from this fixed roulette game, I think, is that the BRICS experiment will ultimately be successful and that more and more nations are likely to sign up to participate in it. If that does happen - even if it takes a long time - then the dollar will ultimately diminish from less international demand and use.
Then watch another global imperial power go into a steep decline.
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