Reply #2: Re the "social disease" aspect - here's a must-read [View All]

[Nothing Without Hope]

This 11 page insightful psycho-social analysis by Paul Levy looks at the madness in a comprehensive way that makes sense to me. I think his ideas have been making the rounds, since I have seen his coined term "malignant egophrenia" several times recently.

http://baltimorechronicle.com/011305PaulLevy.html

ANALYSIS:
The Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis
Bush’s sickness is our own.
by Paul Levy

George W. Bush is ill. He has a psycho-spiritual disease of the soul, a sickness that is endemic to our culture and symptomatic of the times we live in. It’s an illness that has been with us since time immemorial. Because it’s an illness that's in the soul of all of humanity, it pervades the field and is in all of us in potential at any moment, which makes it especially hard to diagnose.

Bush's malady is quite different from schizophrenia, for example, in which all the different parts of the personality are fragmented and not connected to each other, resulting in a state of internal chaos. As compared to the disorder of the schizophrenic, Bush can sound quite coherent and can appear like such a "regular," normal guy, which makes the syndrome he is suffering from very hard to recognize. This is because the healthy parts of his personality have been co-opted by the pathological aspect, which drafts them into its service. Because of the way the personality self-organizes an outer display of coherence around a pathogenic core, I would like to name Bush's illness ‘malignant egophrenic (as compared to schizophrenic) disease,’ or ‘ME disorder,’ for short. If ME disorder goes unrecognized and is not contained, it can be very destructive, particularly if the person is in a position of power.

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The article goes on to continue his analysis, including points such as the parallels with Hitler's Germany. As I said, I consider this a must-read for anyone trying to comprehend the motivations behind this administration and its willfully blind supporters.