Frozen in aspic: the collective shadow of politics

Carl Jung:  The unconscious person projects on his neighbor

The blinder love is, more more it is instinctual, and the more it is attended by destructive consequences, for it is a dynamism that needs form and direction.

Therefore a compensatory Logos has been joined to it as a light that shines in the darkness.

A man who is unconscious of himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when he sees everything that he is not conscious of in himself coming to meet him from outside as projections upon his neighbour.

Frozen in aspic the collective shadow.....There is often something long hidden in both our selves and in the collective of a country or culture. When Germany identified at the end of World War 2 then West Germany hid it's past till 68 and Baader Meinhof lifted the lid and found what lurked beneath. Here the Greens first Appears The GDR did it another way they imprisoned or executed the most prominent Nazis . They then said everyone was a good Communist and drove the Nazi shadow into the darkness. And yet within the GDR the Stassi spied tortured and controlled the population . When the Berlin wall came down large crowds gathered outside the hotels where Vietnamese guest workers lived and set them on fire. When the fire brigade turned up they were booed and police had to called. Frozen in aspic the hidden Nazi returned and where did this happen the most? In Dresden scene of the fire bombing by the allies.. and where now does the German party the AFD draw it's strength from? You have guessed it Dresden. The party uses words in ways and has approaches not seen for 80 or 90 years.... No i am not saying they are the same as Hitler..Ian just finding you that a Nazi collective shadow frozen in aspic was never exorcised..The Americans behaving like Saddam in the prisons of Baghdad reveal the phenomena over and over again In China Mao*s legacy is revealed as a thin veneer as traditional ideas of Imperial China reappear and Russia becomes the best friends of Donald Trump as it becomes a guarantee of family values and nationalism. Putin is admired by Farage Nuttal et all. Hear and see those dark collective shadows stir as the frozen demons in aspic spill out onto the tapestry of 2017...The triangle if rescuer abused and abuser goes around over and over again ...Marx was right it will only be that under late capitalism in the West will the change begin . Perhaps as a result of opposition to Trump, Farage and all the crypto fascists that have appeared...


"The Beast In Me"

The beast in me
Is caged by frail and fragile bars
Restless by day
And by night rants and rages at the stars
God help the beast in me

The beast in me
Has had to learn to live with pain
And how to shelter from the rain
And in the twinkling of an eye
Might have to be restrained
God help the beast in me

Sometimes it tries to kid me
That it's just a teddy bear
And even somehow manage to vanish in the air
And that is when I must beware
Of the beast in me that everybody knows
They've seen him out dressed in my clothes
Patently unclear
If it's New York or New Year
God help the beast in me

The beast in me