19-09-2016, 11:22 AM
Drew Phipps Wrote:Sideshow? I wish. Then we could turn it off.
You can switch it off. It's our personal choice to watch, listen and read what you do. We do these things because we rather arrogantly think we have a slither of power to alter things in elections. Even though we all know that we don't.
You and I are given two choices, either this or that; when both are loaded from the start.
Once everyone gets around to understanding todays politics is a fixed roulette wheel and shifts the discussion away, things will begin to slowly improve. Maybe.
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