11-09-2009, 11:01 AM
David Healy Wrote:ludicrious -- we simply have bigger sticks.
I wonder how long the big stick can continue to last David? The boys of Wall Street have run the nation into the ground and no one trust Uncle's dollar anymore. Consequently, the Pentagon will, sooner or later, begin to have its budget irreparably shrunk and many of its best toys taken away, sold off the China or India or otherwise perpetually stored in rust yards, as happened to the Russians in the 1990's.
Then along will come a new Empire.
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