Posted on 10/11/2010 2:35:42 AM PDT by Scanian
History tells us that organizations, movements, even entire nations can go mad in much the same way an individual does, with the same expression of irrationality, frenzy, and violence. Recent evidence suggests that the American left is going through precisely such a breakdown.
In his memoir Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Carl Jung, the psychiatric pioneer who was smarter than Freud, discussed a particular case history in which a patient told of a troubling dream: he was repeatedly confronted with the image of a howling feces-covered baby. Jung had no immediate explanation, and thought about little else for several days. At last the solution appeared: his patient harbored a buried psychosis, one that was in danger of emerging. To his horror, Jung realized that it must be the therapy itself that was threatening his patient's sanity. Jung was presented with the dilemma of how to cut short the analysis without allowing the patient to guess the actual reason, which might well send him into a tailspin from which he would never recover. (Freud would have kept pushing until the guy was institutionalized.)
Fortunately, on his next visit, the patient asked to curtail the treatment, giving only vague reasons. A relieved Jung concurred. The patient never returned, but Jung checked on him regularly and assured himself that the man remained whole and rational, the seed of insanity remaining safely buried for the balance of his life.
What better metaphor for the current condition of the left? Leftism suffers from an equivalent psychosis -- one that is now beginning to break out. This is not by chance but due to the ongoing collapse of the left's epic dream. Leftists have always believed that one clear shot, one opportunity to put their policies into play without opposition from "reactionary interests,"
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Don't be afraid to add the Nazis to that list Mr Dunn. They were just another set of banal, crazy left-wingers desperate to lift the state above the people - in the name of the people.
A terrific article Scanian. Thanks for posting.
The left sure sounds like the followers of radical Islam - all must be converted or else. brrrr
Excellent article!
Re- posted here:
http://ronbosoldier.blogspot.com/2010/10/mass-insanity-of-american-left.html
May it go VIRAL!
The thing we have going for us, a fact I discovered as a young U.S. Army Intelligence agent spying on the SDS in the early 1970s, is the fact that the American Left has no guts!
When the owners of the country put their foot down, as happened at Kent State in 1970, the Leftists suddenly rediscover non violent protest and back down.
This is happening again even as I type these lines.
I'll have to agree strongly and throw in my $.02 on that. See the Hayek quote on my FR profile page. It's the 3rd quote there, 2 paragraphs. Heck, let's just copy it here, it's that good:
Although our modern socialists' promise of greater freedom is genuine and sincere, in recent years observer after observer has been impressed by the unforeseen consequences of socialism, the extraordinary similarity in many respects of the conditions under "communism" and "fascism." As the writer Peter Drucker expressed it in 1939, "the complete collapse of the belief in the attainability of freedom and equality through Marxism has forced Russia to travel the same road toward a totalitarian society of un-freedom and inequality which Germany has been following. Not that communism and fascism are essentially the same. Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion, and it has proved as much an illusion in Russia as in pre-Hitler Germany."In short, there's not a nickel's difference between them from the standpoint of the conservative, the "liberal of the old school". Note that Hayek was writing before our modern Left had destroyed the original meaning of "liberal".
No less significant is the intellectual outlook of the rank and file in the communist and fascist movements in Germany before 1933. The relative ease with which a young communist could be converted into a Nazi or vice versa was well known, best of all to the propagandists of the two parties. The communists and Nazis clashed more frequently with each other than with other parties simply because they competed for the same type of mind and reserved for each other the hatred of the heretic. Their practice showed how closely they are related. To both, the real enemy, the man with whom they had nothing in common, was the liberal of the old type. While to the Nazi the communist and to the communist the Nazi, and to both the socialist, are potential recruits made of the right timber, they both know that there can be no compromise between them and those who really believe in individual freedom.
-- F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom
National socialists and international socialists differ only slightly in approach. The end results are functionally the same.
I wasn’t there to see it, but I have read, too, that the anti-war protests during the Vietnam era fell off once the draft was ended. Suddenly they seemed to lose all that anger for the poor Vietnamese and their fellow Americans when they were no longer in danger of being drafted themselves.
I just dropped this on the local lib forum, they aren’t awake yet but it should get things going!
The draft was a major factor - no doubt about it - but the main thing was the fact patriotic Americans like the National Guard at Kent State showed they would use deadly force to defend liberty.
1970 was the turning point, no doubt about it, and the Left wimped out. They suddenly discovered it much safer to put on the coat & tie and work from within the government.
Needs to go viral. Excellent piece. I’ve been thinking for a while we need to collect the video clips of violence by the left.
Not to mention the desire of our President, during his campaigning, to establish a civilian corps better armed and stronger than our military.
Not to mention the lack of recognition of ordinary citizens of the USA doing the job our government failed to do. These heroes thwarted terrorist attempts to set off explosives in airplane (Detroit), the Times Square bombing attempt, and others. Who do we honor instead?
Wrong.
Marx believed that.
Lenin's contribution to socialist theory was to recognize that counterrevolution was inevitable. Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot were the major developers of the practical aspects of dealing with counterrevolution.
Have no doubt that "Obama" and his creators are expecting counterrevolution and have a plan to deal with it.
They’ve fallen to believing their own lies. Never a wise thing to do.
Great read. A word to the wise, cornered animals are the most dangerous. Defend yourselves. Defend your families.
The same as the fervor for anti-war protesting stopped when Obama was elected.
Actually this is very much what Glenn Beck has been saying. The radical marxists were so sure that their every dream was about to become reality but now they find their fantasy about to crater.
This makes them extremely desperate, cornered and dangerous.
And they won.
The only problem with the analogy is that the left won’t allow their psychosis to be buried. They not only will flaunt it, they will attack anybody who doesn’t will to become as psychotic.
Therein lies the primary problem, they never did their homework for, or ever studied, physics. Pushing a boulder uphill is not the logical way to approach the task. Just as socialism is not a logical way for humans to live and prosper.
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