22-01-2015, 03:35 PM
Magda Hassan Wrote:As long as he walks the talk it will be good. If nothing else it is refreshing to see a polly more like 'real' people in informal clothing, informal manners, informal social relations. None of this puffed up pomposity of office. I was talking to some one today about the 'honours' sytem and we both thought that when any one has a gong we automatically think they are a crook, corrupt and a sleaze.
That's because they are crooks -- and need the respectability an honour bestows upon them to psychologically cleanse their own shadow when they look in the mirror, I suppose.
But a real shame about Tony Blair don't you think. Not even a lowly "Sir". It must hurt, eh. Even John Major got one of those. And although he made it clear to the Queen that he expected to be made a member of the Garter order, as traditionally all British prime ministers normally are, he got the Order of the Thistle instead. So sad.
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