The title of this blog will be the same as that for a regular column in the Journal of Orgonomy starting with the Volume 51, Number 1 issue. The readers are invited to submit accounts of the plague from their own lives for the column. Here is an example of what will be included:
The essential characteristic of the emotional plague is that action and the reason given for it are never congruent. The underlying motive is always covered up and replaced by an apparent motive. An example is President Trump’s zero tolerance policy for illegal border crossings that has provoked a hysterical reaction from the political left. The apparent motive given for the reaction is that it would require separation of parents and children at the border. However, the hysteria behind their reaction is entirely bogus. The policy of separating children and parents is not new. It has been the policy of past administrations as well. Moreover, there has never been hysteria from the left when children are separated from parents as a result of their arrests and convictions for crimes. Therefore, the true motive for the hysteria must be to force open borders on the nation under the guise of compassion for children.
The political right attempts to address this and similar outbreaks of the plague in a rational manner. Without recognizing this reaction from the political left as an expression of a human disease, destructive emotional plague reaction’s such as this one will continue unrecognized and unopposed.
Charles Konia, M.D. 