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The Madness of George Bush

Comment by Larry Ross, March 20, 2007

This paper has some valuable insights into the character and relatively unknown mental illness affecting our society. It is particularly incarnate in George Bush. Paul Levy has called it "malignant egophrenic" illness or malignant egophrenia. In fact the illness could be named other known psychiatric names but "ME disorder" is the term used here.

As he says "George Bush does not exist in isolation. We can view his entire Administration (Cheney, Rice, Wolfowitz, et all) as well as the corporate, military industrial complex that they are co-dependently enmeshed with, the media they control, and the voters that support them, as interconnected parts of the whole system, or a "field". Instead of relating to parts of this field as isolated entities, it important to contemplate the entire interdependent field as the "medium" through which malignant egophrenia manifests and propagates itself. ME disease is a field phenomenon, and needs to be understood as such."

My own analysis is darker than Levi's. Levi does not question the origin of the alleged 9/11 terrorists, or that the Bush Administration may have created 9/11 and the alleged ' terrorist threat' as part of their comprehensive global plan. Also, that their response to the alleged threat is 'a global war on terrorism' and that it is a vital and integral part of their plan. If one takes this into account, the conspirators many apparent mistakes and miscalculations in Iraq and elsewhere, all make a horrific kind of sense. It seems to be part of their strategy to create enemies and more terrorists, in order to make a very real and growing terrorist threat, and therefore to justify, their series of wars on terror. So far it's been easy for them. The people and Congress accepted the lies used to justify the U.S. war on  Iraq - and many still do. Like clockwork the American people are accepting the lies used to justify the next pre-planned step - a US war on Iran . However they are becoming more suspicious and doubting of the Bush regime. It looks very much like the Bush regime will stage another 'false flag attack on the U.S, and blame Iran . Debate and doubt will be virtually closed off and the ME disorder will become worse - allowing the Bush regime to do as it has planned - making any response it wants, including nuclear, to the alleged " Iranian terrorism attack".

In effect the Bush-Chaney Administration are creating a social climate of ME disorder, and hoping to manage it to suit their purposes and objectives which include perpetual power for them personally and for the chosen people who will follow them and domination of much of the planet. Their technique is perpetual wars on terror, staging false flag operations to terrify the American people, and justifying a series of wars to help create the climate that will accept a de-facto American dictatorship and allow a steady rise in the profits of the corporate military industrial complex. This rise in profits for all segments of that part of society supporting the Bush regime's plans is essential and very much in line with their driving motivations.

Aside from these considerations, I think Paul Levi's analysis is a very valuable contribution to understand the colossal threat we all face. The considerations above, or those people agree with, accentuate and feed the ME disorder and make it worse. 

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The Madness of George W. Bush

by Paul Levy, democracyforcalifornia.com, November 28, 2004

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The following essay offers a penetrating look at the psychopathology of George W. Bush and the collective psychosis that is gripping America, from a Jungian perspective. (This should be read as part of a series, beginning with my previous post, Parading Jesus , in which I'm exploring the idea of approaching the problem in terms of the interconnection of a "many headed hydra," or what this author terms as an "interrelated field." I think if you read this piece in its entirety you'll appreciate why it is important to look at the problem as a symbiosis rather than isolated parts.

The Madness of George W. Bush

A Reflection of our Collective Psychosis 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” guy, which makes the syndrome he suffers 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) disorder,” 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, Ashcroft, Powell, Wolfowitz, et al), as well as the corporate, military industrial complex that they are co-dependently enmeshed with, the media that they control, and the voters that support them, as interconnected parts of a whole system, or a “field.” Instead of relating to parts of this field as isolated entities, it's important to contemplate the entire interdependent field as the “medium” through which malignant egophrenia manifests and propagates itself. ME disease is a field phenomenon, and needs to be understood as such.

Being a field phenomenon, malignant egophrenia is non-local in nature, which means that it is not bounded by the limitations of time or space. Being non-local, this disease pervades and underlies the entire field and can therefore manifest anywhere, through anyone and at any moment. The disease's non-local nature makes the question of who has the disease irrelevant, as we all have it, in potential. It is more a question of whether or not we are aware of our susceptibility to fall prey to it. This awareness itself serves as an immunization that protects us from the pernicious effects of this insidious illness, thereby allowing us to be of genuine help to others.

Bush, like all of us, is both a manifestation of this deeper field and simultaneously an agent affecting the field. He's become so fully taken over by the disease, all the while not suspecting a thing, that he's become a “carrier”, thus infecting the field around him. He has become a portal through which the field around him “warps” in such a way as to feed and support his pathogenic process. A non-local, reciprocally co-arising and interdependent field of unconscious denial and cover-up gets constellated around Bush to enable and protect his pathology.

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This paper has some valuable insights into the character and relatively unknown mental illness affecting our society. It is particularly incarnate in George Bush. Paul Levy has called it "malignant egophrenic" illness or malignant egophrenia. In fact the illness could be named other known psychiatric names but "ME disorder" is the term used here.
As he says "George Bush does not exist in isolation. We can view his entire Administration (Cheney, Rice, Wolfowitz, et all) as well as the corporate, military industrial complex that they are co-dependently enmeshed with, the media they control, and the voters that support them, as interconnected parts of the whole system, or a "field".

The following essay offers a penetrating look at the psychopathology of George W. Bush and the collective psychosis that is gripping America, from a Jungian perspective. (This should be read as part of a series, beginning with my previous post, Parading Jesus , in which I'm exploring the idea of approaching the problem in terms of the interconnection of a "many headed hydra," or what this author terms as an "interrelated field." I think if you read this piece in its entirety you'll appreciate why it is important to look at the problem as a symbiosis rather than isolated parts.