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Title: Hubris to Madness to Destruction
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LewRockwell.com
URL Source: http://www.lewrockwell.com/wallace/wallace102.html
Published: Mar 2, 2003
Author: BobWallace
Post Date: 2005-07-05 21:57:10 by YertleTurtle
Keywords: Destruction, Madness, Hubris
Views: 180
Comments: 6
I've watched George Bush change over the last year. He went from being a Good Ol' Boy who said if he lost the election, "life goes on," to a dogmatic, closed-minded man who apparently believes God has chosen him to bring the deluded leftist dream of "democracy" to the Middle East. People have suggested to me that Bush is either insane or a psychopath (i.e., he has no conscience). He is neither. What has happened to him is a sequence the Greeks noticed thousands of years ago: Koros (stability) to Hubris (arrogance, moral blindness) to Ate (a kind of "madness") to Nemesis (destruction). One of the problems of the afflicted is that they never know what is happening to them. The only school of modern psychology I pay attention to is Object Relations Theory. The only reason I pay attention to it is because it confirms, and expands on, ancient wisdom. It postulates all of us are born with a "grandiose" self and a "devalued" self. They remain with us all our lives. Object Relations Theory has added two things to the sequence the Greeks wrote about: paranoia and splitting things into "all-good" and "all-bad" (or grandiose and devalued). Both paranoia and splitting fall right in between Hubris and Ate. People who are afflicted with Hubris become grandiose. They then also become paranoid and split people into groups of "all-good" and "all-bad." Hubristic people, since they have become grandiose, see themselves as immensely important. Since they are so important, they can't be wrong (the grandiosity). Therefore, all problems are projected onto other people (the devaluation). Hubris then leads the afflicted to become paranoid about all these "bad" people, since they have now become the cause of all problems. They have to be ferreted out and destroyed. This sequence, unfortunately, is what has happened to Bush. Of course, he does not know it. It's why he talks about "either you are with us or against us" and speaks of "the evil ones." It's why he is paranoid about Saddam Hussein. He really believes Hussein is going to nuke us or poison us. Base, degraded people are more prone to Hubris. Bush is not a base man, although he is becoming one. He's just imperfect, like everyone else in the world. The Clintons, on the other hand, are truly base people. As their Hubris increased, so did their paranoia, which led them to attempt to destroy all their enemies. It's why, in the Bible, Herod gave the order to kill all the male infants. It's why Saddam Hussein killed all his enemies, and why Robert Mugabe is acting the way he is. It's why Hitler and Stalin killed all their enemies. Power is what causes people is become Hubristic. Political power is the worst, because the afflicted often has no one to brake them. "Power intoxicates," goes the saying, "and immunity corrupts." It's why Caligula declared himself a god. Hubris drove him to Ate. The fact that people are prone to Hubris is why the smallest government possible is the best one. Apparently Bush and the rest of his administration consider themselves to be Men of the World. They're not. Men of the World do not split people into all-good and all-bad. People with an understanding of human nature know that no one is pure good or pure evil. Everyone is a shade of grey. Some are more good than others, and some are more evil. But both will be with us until the end of the Earth. People who are morally blind 51; which I mentioned in the second paragraph 51; are the ones who split people into groups of all-good and all-bad. This allows them to turn the all-bad into things, evil people worthy of death. People who aren't morally blind see the grey in everyone. In that sense, Bush and those in his administration have become morally blind. All they can see is good and evil. Unfortunately, our opponents see us the same way. That's why they call the US "the Great Satan." What we've got now are two groups of people convinced the other is evil and should die. Hence, we now have an unnecessary Holy World War I on our hands. The sequence, Koros to Hubris to Ate to Nemesis, partly explains the collapse of empires. Those who run the empire become grandiose and Hubristic. With Hubris comes the paranoia, and the attempt to conquer all threats, even if they aren't threats. Hubris prevents the rulers from seeing what is really happening 51; what the real threats are. While they spend hundreds of billions of dollars abroad, things collapse at home. Only they can't see it. That's part of the moral blindness of Hubris. The last time I saw this sequence was during the Vietnam Non-War. The horrible Lyndon Baines Johnson escalated the conflict, leading to the deaths of 58,000 Americans and a million or more Vietnamese, all because of a Hubris which led to madness. Then came the Nemesis 51; collapse at home because of protests, and troops finally being pulled out. Pol Pot came to power in Southeast Asia and committed genocide. Even today we are still suffering the Nemesis of LBJ's Hubristic attempts at a "Great Society." I have no idea what exactly will happen now that America is turning itself into an empire. But I, and anyone else, can predict the future in a general way. All that needs to be done is to pay attention to the sequence the Greeks outlined. This sequence that the Greeks noticed is rarely taught in schools. It is an understatement to say that is a shame.
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#1. To: YertleTurtle (#0)
Post of the Day Award Winner (for tomorrow), for those of us shutting it down this evening. Cheers, all.
Excellent.. Although, with regard to psychological analysis, I kinda wondered about Freud and abnormal sexual behavior within the Bush Regime.
"Working Three Jobs is: Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic... Get any sleep?" ~ George W Bush
Maybe he sold his soul. Read this thread's article, then Zip's post. Mom, Who Lost Son In Iraq, Talks About 'Disgusting' White House Private Meeting With Bush
War is just a racket. Major General Smedley Butler, USMC; 1933
In a sense Bush has sold his soul. Specifically, he's gained the world and lost his soul. In the truest sense of the word, he's insane and doesn't know it.
I'm sure he's never read Goethe's Faust. He never even finished My Pet Goat.
War is just a racket. Major General Smedley Butler, USMC; 1933
Good find. The only thing missing is knowledge costs.
"Social Democracy" is an oxymoron.
#2. To: YertleTurtle (#0)
#3. To: YertleTurtle (#0)
People have suggested to me that Bush is either insane or a psychopath (i.e., he has no conscience). He is neither.
#4. To: robin (#3)
#5. To: YertleTurtle (#4)
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