"The Madness of George W. Bush"

[ailsagirl]

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

Bush 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's in the soul of all of humanity.

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.

In much the same way that a child's psychology cannot be understood without looking at the family system he or she is a part of, George Bush does not exist in isolation.We can view Bush and his entire Administration (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, etc), as well as the corporate, military industrial complex that they are co-dependently enmeshed with, the media that they control, the voters that support them, and ourselves as well, as interconnected parts of a whole system, or a "field." Instead of relating to any part of this field as an isolated entity, it’s important to contemplate the entire interdependent field as the ‘medium’ though which malignant egophrenia manifests and propagates itself. ME disease is a field phenomenon, and needs to be contemplated as such. Bush's sickness is our own.

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

[Nitrogenica]

1. Propaganda is the disease, because it worked.

This time. We need to work on what happens next time.

[Why Syzygy]

2. wtf does it take?

HOW did this happen? How in hell did we earn such a loathsome 'president' (ugh)?

At least some of us are willing to speak out again this ghastly affair.

That's encouraging... but Still!

Goddess!

[Eye_on_prize]

3. Paul Levy's recent works are very illuminating I think. He's got a number

of other articles posted on his website at
http://www.awakeninthedream.com/html/

My favorite is "It's Time to Wake Up".

[ailsagirl]

4. Thanks for the heads-up!! Levy is excellent

[scarletlib]

5. Wow! Excellent Article

It does seem to me as if a major part of out society (US) has just gone nuts. This helps explain some of this. Like why do people let this admin. get away with all the trash, lies and bad things they do.
Why don't they look at the 8 yrs we had under Clinton with a growing economy, people getting jobs and buying houses, a budget surplus, a good international reputation and now just the opposite in 4 short years and they are happy about it.

I just don't get it. I know a man from my Church and working with his wife. He is a good man. A Catholic. Goes to Church every Sunday. Leads the Choir. Yet he supports Bush in everything he does. He asked me at their Christmas Party if I and other liberals were fit to be tied about the election. (I am paraphrasing as I don't remember his exact question but he implied we must be freaking out at that point) I just looked at him and said no. I was just waiting for everything to fall apart and would then see what he had to say about that.

(edit for typos)

[louis-t]

7. I have a slightly different perspective.

I have said that the 50 million people * has brainwashed want so badly for him to be perfect, the 'anti-Clinton', the good, moral, 'Chrstyen' guy you have a beer with, that they are willing to overlook any and all evidence of his crimes. If evidence was put in each of their hands that was incontravertible, they would either ignore it, or say it is a lie or a left-wing conspiracy. Even confronted with the many lies on tape, conflicting statements, shifting rationales, memos on torture, etc., these people still say "we don't torture people, * doesn't lie, he's honest, he's doing his best, he's a strong leader, he's moral." What will it take for these people to wake up? A draft won't do it, Iraq civil war won't do it, a bankrupt economy and Social Security system won't do it... There will always be an excuse. It is a simple case of denial and delusion.

[FreedomFry]

9. Sounds like you have the exact same perspective as Paul Levy! n/t

[Jade Fox]

8. Right now an alarming number of Americans....

seem eager to abandon their critical thinking for blind faith and a simplistic
world view. I don't get it either.

[tom_paine]

10. It has happened before. It will happen again.

It is the oldest story in human history.

Hell, it's the God damned plot of Star Wars, it's so universal (no pun intended)

Amerika 2005 is only the latest in a long list of nations who have been seized by power-mad Tyrants.

A VERY old story

[vixengrl]

6. A very fascinating piece.

"Sickness" is the way I look at what's going on as well--I find it hard to understand why so many apparently intelligent, concerned people are in such denial about how mistaken this administration has been and continues to be.