Opinion:

The madness of the extreme

Here is a case of taking a few observations that in themselves may accurately reflect the tendencies of an individual and constructing a huge, overarching, intricate structure whose entire purpose is to serve as character assassination disguised as psychological analysis.

The article linked and quoted below is not only inaccurate, it's idiotic. If this is how the far-left-wing is trying to understand the results of the 2004 election, it shows me that the extremists on that side of the spectrum are just as paranoid as the far-right-wing, with the main difference being what they are paranoid about, not the simple fact of being paranoid.

Those who take this so-called analysis seriously indeed deserve the appellation "moonbat".

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.

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.

In the end, the key difference between the far-right and the far-left is that the far-right sees the world through distorted lenses, while the far-left constructs intricate, tortured theories to explain why others don't think the way they do, assuming the way they think is the one and only logical and correct way. In the end, both extremes are too blind to see that there is more than one way to think.