The Moral Development Of George W. Bush [View All]

[Booberdawg]

I received this yesterday from a Democrat pal I've kept in contact with from another message boards I used to post on last year and prior when I had AOL. She sent me this article titled "Dumbya" cause it reminded her of me and how I used to rail about him during the 2000 campaign that he didn't seem too bright and never answered a fucking question that I could see. <G> Well, we know the rest of THAT story. Anyway, I am trying to encourage her fine self to join DU and told her I would post the story she sent me, so here goes.

The Moral Development Of George W. Bush
By Carol Norris
CounterPunch.org
9-21-3

"...people progress in their moral reasoning (i.e., in their bases for ethical behavior) through a series of levels... The first is "the Preconventional Level," where one usually finds oneself in elementary school. The first stage of this level is where George, I believe, makes his home. It's called: Stage Zero."

If George wasn't driving the world down the road to extinction with his wars, his environmentally disastrous choices and world alienating policies--"Look at me, ma, no hands" he says while sitting behind the wheel of our children's future--I'd think he was almost fascinating.

Fascinating the way one who is steeped in myriad psychological issues is.

I'm a psychotherapist. And, having never seen George in therapy, despite my open invitation, it would be unethical for me to make an official diagnosis of him. So, I won't. But, I can kick some thoughts around.

Remember Tom Hanks' movie, "Big," when the kid, by an accident of fate, finds himself turned into an adult, playing grown-up roles he is not developmentally ready for? This is George. I don't mean this maliciously or satirically; I really mean it. I think developmentally speaking George is a big kid. Lots of people are. The difference is they don't have the means to bomb human beings into "pink mist," obliterate the infrastructures of countries, and poison the world with coal and pesticides and carbon dioxide and depleted uranium and napalm, as they play grown up.


http://www.rense.com/general41/stage.htm