Psychosis is a set of symptoms that can cause a person to lose touch with reality, and have difficulty distinguishing what is real and what is not. This is a medical/ dictionary definition. For one who is suffering from a psychosis facts are unreal and truth is only defined by their own delusions or hallucinations. Our world has had the ground breaking thought of Sigmund Freud to thank for outlining the dangers and better understanding psychosis.
Dr. Freuds studies were with individuals during the rise of Hitler and Naziism in his homeland of Germany. Being of Jewish descent, Freud was at a loss as to why the people of Germany willfully embraced such Nazi hatred. In his book, “Moses and Monotheism”, he advanced the theory that not only are individuals vulnerable to psychosis, there is also such a condition in groups of peoples. Germany was collectively suffering with an episode of group psychosis. Nothing else fits and we all know how that played out.
America is
now in the same boat. To a large group of our people, the facts of reality do
not matter, all that matters is their supposed truth, their delusions and grandiose
hallucinations. The deluded will lie, defame, jail, destroy and kill all conflicting facts
or persons that paint a different story. Our people are, indeed, suffering from a group
psychosis. This sickness is being played out in our politics as it did in
Germany almost 100 years ago.
Who are the
crazies? Following the presidential election
loss of Donald Trump in 2020, this blog made the prediction that going forward
the crazies are now our rulers. Have not
the past four years proven that reality, America has seemingly gone crazy. Before your feathers get ruffled there is a
way to make a self-diagnosis in the privacy of your own head. If candidate and
former President Trump were to be killed by a lunatic fringe left winger, would
you still be a Democrat? Would you still vote the party line? If the answer is yes, call the psychiatrist!
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
