07-11-2016, 08:12 AM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:While not allowed in all voting jurisdictions, I think the best way to register a 'vote of disgust' is to either vote for minor party candidates or to vote for none of the above or a write in candidate that is real or fictional. If one stays home, they can and do interpret this as political dis-interest rather than disgust [more often the case].
Yep, I have always considered that option too. But in the end I would still be playing in their rigged casino and, therefore, accepting their game is valid even though it isn't.
In the UK the loyalty by MP to their political parties translates as anti-democratic imo. MP's who vote according to their party whips, and most of them do that most of the time, means they can't possibly represent the wishes of their constituents on certain issues. Which they are supposed to do and claim to do.
In the last analysis, I regarded it as better to not get involved at all in their world and to make this position as public as possible.
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