13-02-2014, 09:36 AM
I thought the strap-line in the above linked story was telling:
The smell of napalm equates to the smell of dollars, I think.
Quote:The lost paths to peace
The unpublished diary of Giovanni D'Orlandi, Italian ambassador to Saigon from 1962 to 1968. The untold story of "operation Marigold", a secret negotiation that could have stopped the war long before 1975. But there were those who preferred the smell of napalm …
The smell of napalm equates to the smell of dollars, I think.
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