March | 2013 | Charles Konia, M.D.

Apropos Of Women Drivers In Saudi Arabia

In ” The Woman Who Dared to Drive”, Wall Street Journal, March 23-24, 2013, the author describes the harsh reaction of the al-Saud ruling government to a woman, Manal al-Sharif, who broke the custom of the kingdom that women are not permitted to drive. Ms al-Sharif was arrested and detained in prison for over a week and was released only after her father personally pleaded with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah for a pardon and pledged to forbid his daughter ever to drive again in the kingdom.

These events can only make sense from a functional energetic perspective. On one hand there is a woman who wants to exercise her right to drive a motor vehicle. On the other is a rigidly authoritarian social order that is based on repression of women in particular and on sexual repression in general. The strict authoritarian order must maintain its control over people by imposing absolute moral rules of social conduct. These rules function to contain enormous quantities of destructive energy that are bound up in people’s character and muscular armor because that armor prevents them from naturally expressing their emotions socially. Once these rules are liberalized the flood gates of destructive human emotions will be unleashed and bring about what will amount to an “Arab Spring” for the kingdom, a highly destructive and chaotic situation similar to that which has recently engulfed many other Muslim nations in the area.

Because Saudi Arabian society is on the socio-political extreme right, black fascists (emotional plague characters) on the right can easily infiltrate and exert control over social policy in the kingdom further increasing the degree of its social rigidity. The solution to Ms al-Sharif’s problem is not liberalization of Saudi custom but an understanding of and addressing the Saudi pople’s underlying emotional plague that makes it necessary.

March 25, 2013
Categories: character structure, emotional plague, Politics, Social Sciences . Tags: Arab Spring, black fascists, King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia, Women drivers . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 11 Comments

The Demise Of The Two Party System In America

The two party system in America which has been in existence since the beginning of the American Nation is nearing collapse. In an attempt to understand the November 2012 election debacle for the Republican Party, the Republican National Committee (RNC) released a report concluding that unless drastic policy changes are made “it will be increasingly difficult for Republicans to win another presidential election in the near future.” The report describes the party as ” ideologically rigid, still clinging to the days of Ronald Reagan, unable to speak to a wider electorate and increasingly viewed by voters as indifferent to the struggles of average people.” The report criticized the party for not embracing “comprehensive immigration reform,” not providing more help for people’s economic needs and not being “inclusive and welcoming” of minority groups on social issues.

The report is looking at what happened in November from a political and not from a bio-social perspective. It is looking at it from the viewpoint of social symptoms and not from the underlying social movement from which surface events are manifested. From a bio-social perspective there has been a marked shift to the left in the political mainstream that began around 1960. This was, in part, manifested by a rise in people’s dependency on the government (welfarism), in collectivism, in mechanistic thinking and in the use of the intellect as a defense against emotion. The goal is to wipe out individual authority and replace it with the collective authority of “Big Brother”. Like a social tsunami, this wave from the political extreme left first destroyed the Democratic Party in the 1960s and now has moved to the right and is in the process of destroying what remains viable of the Republican Party

In order to win over the electorate what the RNC task force is recommending is nothing less than a capitulation to the political left by going along with the very same socialist agenda that are currently being instituted by the Democratic Party. This “me too” policy is self-serving and politically motivated. It means that there is no longer any real difference between the two parties since they are both offering the same socialistic measures. It also means that there is no longer any real opposition in organized political parties that provides a viable alternative to the socialist onslaught being actively spread by the political left.

March 22, 2013
Categories: emotional plague, Politics, Social Sciences, socio-political character . Tags: Democratic Party., Republican Party, shift to the left in the political mainstream . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 8 Comments