08-01-2009, 03:27 PM
Below is some interesting footage of Ron Paul on Israeli’s attack on Gaza.
I only disagree with him on one point and that is concerning his comment that “we [USA] have nothing to gain” in it.
The war party gains. That’s the whole point. War without end. Today they are de facto “the USA” by the sheer fact of their complete control of the institutions of the state.
But I have to admit that I also am a bit of a “hand-wringer”. But my wringing comes not so much from a perspective that Israel is solely to blame. Conflict requires at least two parties to succeed.
My perspective is rather more boring because the underlying demand is that it asks a lot more than most of us are ever willing to give. I see it yet another example of a conflict manifesting outwardly because we collectively lack the courage to engage the conflict within ourselves and meet our own “shadow” face-to-face.
Or as Charlie Sheen reflected in a letter to his grandmother about the US war in Vietnam, that he voiced at the end of the movie “Platoon” on the terror and bloodshed he had just witnessed:
“...sometimes Grandma, I think we were fighting ourselves.”
A-fooking-Men :evil:
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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=08gTWqWrI4M
I only disagree with him on one point and that is concerning his comment that “we [USA] have nothing to gain” in it.
The war party gains. That’s the whole point. War without end. Today they are de facto “the USA” by the sheer fact of their complete control of the institutions of the state.
But I have to admit that I also am a bit of a “hand-wringer”. But my wringing comes not so much from a perspective that Israel is solely to blame. Conflict requires at least two parties to succeed.
My perspective is rather more boring because the underlying demand is that it asks a lot more than most of us are ever willing to give. I see it yet another example of a conflict manifesting outwardly because we collectively lack the courage to engage the conflict within ourselves and meet our own “shadow” face-to-face.
Or as Charlie Sheen reflected in a letter to his grandmother about the US war in Vietnam, that he voiced at the end of the movie “Platoon” on the terror and bloodshed he had just witnessed:
“...sometimes Grandma, I think we were fighting ourselves.”
A-fooking-Men :evil:
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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=08gTWqWrI4M
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