Savage is right, Liberalism is a Mental Disorder.
They are people on the "outside"-whether through personality defects, such as intense jealousy and envy, a deep sense of inadequacy or something that sets them apart from the "mainstream", homosexuality, physical disability, belonging to a persecuted minority etc. The Postmodern understanding of social justice revolves around the "other". Derrida's phrase "the singularity of the Other" and Rorty's term "otherness" refer to those who are marginalized by society - the poor, unemployed, migrants, Hispanics, blacks, women, gays and lesbians. This is equivalent to the Marxist idea that virtue resides only among the oppressed and forms the foundation for identity politics.
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05/05/2010 3:10:20 PM PDT by
mjp
(pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, independence, limited government, capitalism})
There is a protozoa disease often spread by cats that has infected as many as 50 million Americans. Called Toxoplasma gondii, it causes the disease Toxoplasmosis. It can also be spread by a pregnant mother to her children.
It is very noteworthy, in that it causes a unique and very specific neurological effect in rats, which causes them to be attracted to the scent of cat urine. This puts the rat’s life at risk for being consumed by a cat, which spreads the protozoa.
In humans, it is being suggested that it can cause both schizophrenia and neurosis. This is interesting, because neurosis is defined as “a class of functional mental disorders involving distress but neither delusions nor hallucinations, whereby behavior is not outside socially acceptable norms.”
As such, neurotic people can be of two kinds. The first kind have an “honest” neurosis, like a phobia, an unusual fear of something. The other kind have a “deceptive” neurosis, in which which what they are feeling is expressed in a way to conceal itself.
For instance, an individual with great feelings of inferiority, who pretends that he is far superior to everyone else. On the surface he comes across as an arrogant megalomaniac, but inside he is terribly afraid of being unmasked as the inferior person he thinks he is.
Another example are those with severe control issues, that seek to control everything around them, yet secretly wish to have their lives controlled and directed.
