The Second Stage: the Adversarial Dragon

How do you characterize millennia of development of civilization in a short assessment? --as the Age of the Adversarial Dragon.  Over this period, the differentiation of the ego consciousness from the Unconscious becomes extreme, and adversarial.  To increase his powers of self-control and self-will, the ego must take energy from the Unconscious, and defend his independent personality and his self-made world-- outer and inner-- from the attacks and sly infiltrations of the thwarted instinctual Unconscious-- therefore the aptness of the myth motif of the Hero fighting the Dragon (Unconscious/Nature), destroying it, and winning the Treasure (powers) it hoarded, and the Maiden (the good life) it held captive, and everything is beautiful in the garden, forevermore.  You wish.  The outcome, actually, is ultimately counterproductive, because the Dragon cannot be destroyed or even vanquished, and in attempting it, terrible havoc is wreaked on mankind and Nature, and the Hero in fighting the Dragon becomes a dragon himself, a terrible monster, and the wonderful world of servomachines he has devised to bring on a Golden Age of Peaceful Plenty (the garden) have also become their opposite-- a terrible monster that was made to be a faithful servant and has become our master instead; and we become its thralls, as worldwide destruction comes of making our utopian garden.  So much for dualism.  More to follow...