24-01-2015, 09:19 AM
It's sheer lunacy for the neocons to have threatened this. Common sense says that Russia, China, Brics and others will develop an alternative - even if it takes time. And once established and running, other nations will switch to using it, probably on a joint basis to begin with, as a matter of settling trade transactions. But who knows thereafter? Some might switch altogether as they get increasingly fed up with the US.
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