Wednesday, 4 October 2017

IN THE PSYCHIATRIST' CHAIR WITH THE UNITED STATES OF 'BORN VICTIM' AMERICA!. PART 1.





When a person repeatedLY and seriously harms himself, it is usually a symptom of a serious mental and/or emotional and psychological disorder, which needs to be appropriately diagnosed and treated. If it is to be stopped, ignoring it is not normally an option. 

In fact, if it is ignored, then there is every likelihood that it will escalate, as the person takes it to the edge, in their attempt to get the attention they are seeking, and from the person or persons from whom they are seeking it.



It might sometimes be the case that the person is trying to demonstrate their 'significance', their 'self-worth', their 'power', even though it is their belief that those qualities are lacking in their lives, which might be leading them to 'demonstrating' them by way of self-destructive behaviours.

Following the most recent 'normal' - for the United States of America - gun outrage in the country.

This time in Las Vegas, the gambling capital of the United States, if not the world, with apparently a lone gunman - outlaw - shooting to death over 50 innocent people, and wounding over 500 others. 



The world's media are again repleted with the usual platitudes. Although, with the enormity of the death toll and the number of injured, the words to describe this depravity are proving difficult to find. 

As pretty much all of them have already been used, on numerous occasions, to describe the too numerous previous outrages.

Listening to the automatic gun fire echoing, as the gunman mowed down the innocents. 

I was reminded of the 'fire-fights' between American GIs and their North Vietnamese and Viet Cong adversaries in the Vietnam war of the 1960s to the first half of the 1970s. 



But this was not American Sniper killing Iraqis. It was an American Psycho taking advantage of his country's criminally lax gun laws to kill innocent Americans in their scores, and maiming them in their hundreds.

Once again, Americans are asking themselves: How could this have happened, and why has it happened? Will there be no end to it? 

Well, Americans all know why and how it has happened. What is more, they all know that it is almost certain to happen, again, and again. 

The only question worth asking is this: How long before Americans will be using even more powerful and lethal firepower to kill other innocent Americans?



These outrages, these pernicious acts of terrorism is taking place because America is a very dysfunctional society, and one with too many guns and too lax gun control laws. 

All of which go together to create the conditions which make the country prone to Americans massacring fellow Americans without any pity.

Let us imagine that the United States of America were to be personified, and taken into therapy. What might be the interaction or transaction between 'him' and the Therapist?

To be continued.










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