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To: Khepera
"I see the explosion of mental disorder coming from a multitude of sources, but four concern me in this limited space."

"One, in concocting irrational rationalizations enabling them to excuse anything or do anything, many in the Clinton generation both lost track of reality and pushed themselves and those around them into the realm of psychotic levels of irrationality, and ever-expanding denial of reality¾ to the point where the current President of the United States denies knowing what sex is or what the word "is" means. But it isn't just about sex. Their concepts of politics or economics are no more rational than their concepts of sex, and to question any of it is considered a threat to all of it."

"Two, as psychotic levels of rationalization became more widespread, they came to create and dominate an unhealthy national psychological environment. It's not uncommon to hear serious presentations on TV, including by the president, that would indicate severe pathology in any competent clinical evaluation. The psychotic psychological environment in this country is lethal. Talk shows and magazines are filled with proselytizations of pathology. Music and musicians are like escapees from mental wards or rogue motorcycle gangs. In the churches, 30 percent of clergy admit sexual affairs with parishioners and preach sermons accordingly. Fifty years ago the media environment, the church environment, the entertainment environment, the political environment, and the educational environment furnished a psychological environment that was corrective of mental disorder. For the last 35 years that environment has been exhorting mental disorder and hostility toward the basic underwriting of self-disciplined behavior."

"Three, the necessary protective moral standards by which people treat each other as adults have eroded to an extent that is nearly unsurvivable. What members of a generation have done to each other has driven then nuts. We live in a amoral environment where you can't even leave the President of the United States alone in the Oval Office with a high school girl, and there are tens of millions of people in this country defending it while those who have serious reservations about such a mentality are accused of sexual McCarthyism on national TV."

"Four, too many people in the last 35 years have devised a delusional system whereby they look upon reality and pleas to take basic responsibility as an oppressive right-wing conspiracy. They have been supported in this belief by the media instead of having it challenged."

"The Clintons have surfed this psychotic cultural and generational wave into the White House."

"The attempt has been made to understand Bill and Hillary Clinton, particularly Bill, in terms of classical neurosis from abusive childhoods. But much of what is seen in the Clinton generation has made that model obsolete, although many from that generation, including psychiatrists and psychologists, desperately hold on to it... to relieve themselves(dump it all on us) of any personal responsibility."

68 posted on 02/10/2002 10:29:09 AM PST by f.Christian
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To: f.Christian
Thats a wonderful post.... lets read it again.
69 posted on 02/10/2002 10:35:43 AM PST by Khepera
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