emotional plague | Charles Konia, M.D.

The Breakdown Of The Biological Work Function Leads To Social Disintegration

Work is a vital biological function. People’s ability to work is essential for the well being of the individual as well as of society. The capacity to enjoy working helps people to live harmoniously with others. In varying degrees, people’s armor interferes with their ability to work productively and to live in an orderly way. Energy not discharged in work is often displaced onto the social realm as political unrest. Because of severe armor, some people are unable to work at all. Instead, they engage in social activities that allow them to take control of others by telling them what they should have a right to and be given. Social armor in the form of government bureaucracy and unions adds to the crippling effect of individual armor on people’s work function. People in charge of these institutions not only are able to limit individual freedom but they also encourage irresponsibility, helplessness and dependency on others.

Do-good politicians are ready and waiting to assume the role of caretaker. With taxpayers money taken from the productive segment they give generous handouts and other benefits to the unproductive segment, those who are arbitrarily identified by them and the media as “the needy”. A pathological attachment develops between the unproductive segment and the politicians. This leads to a sense of entitlement and resentment on the part of the takers who begin to feel that they actually have a right to what is being given them without charge.
When an economic downturn happens and the politicians are unable to provide what has been promised to the unproductive masses, a highly volatile social situation develops. Many of those who participated in the Occupy Wall Street movement belong to this group. Meanwhile, the politicians and government bureaucrats who were responsible for bringing about this economic debacle escape without penalty with no one quite able to understand what has happened.

November 29, 2011
Categories: emotional plague, Politics, Social Sciences . . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 3 Comments

The Components Required For A Large-scale Eruption Of The Emotional Plague

It is helpful to understand exactly how emotional plague eruptions (such as the “Occupy Wall Street” movement that is spreading across our nation) get started and develop. There are three components:

1. A certain quantity of unemployed and unemployable people plus some well-intentioned idealistic liberals to provide a legitimate rationale to the eruption are needed to supply the “critical energy” for the movement.

2. Hard core leftist ideologues are required to orchestrate the event by providing the necessary excitation to mobilize and direct people’s energy so that it appears to be a spontaneous uprising.

3. As in all similar plague attacks, a suitable target-victim is needed for plague individuals to focus and channel their irrational hatred originating from their destructive middle layer. In this case, the victims include the wealthy Wall Street capitalists and others who are arbitrarily identified as the ” rich”. Choosing Wall Street as the target is an attempt on the part of the organizers to start an ideological class warfare between the “haves” and the “have nots”.

The true function of the “protests” is to express their personal revenge on those who are better off than they are and also to disrupt and ultimately cripple the economic activity of the nation. By not openly condemning them, President Obama is tacitly showing his approval. He will benefit from the resulting political agitation for the 2012 presidential election campaign because he will maintain a proper distance from those who are taking part in it and not not to be identified with them.

The Occupy Wall Street movement is not an isolated occurrence. The perpetrators are already planning future demonstrations. From an historical perspective, it can be viewed as the first wave in a systematic process to cripple and destroy the American economy on many fronts.

October 27, 2011
Categories: emotional plague, Politics, Social Sciences . Tags: Obama administration, Occupy Wall Street, presidential election campaign . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 3 Comments

The Relationship Between The True Liberal And The Pseudo-liberal Characters

In today’s anti-authoritarian era, it is especially useful to understand the dynamics of the social relationship between the true liberal and the pseudo-liberal/communist character. It is generally believed that liberals and pseudo-liberals are one and the same. Those on the left also believe that they honestly share the same political goal of bringing about a better world. These dangerous errors originate from superficial similarities in the structures of these two very different socio-political political character types. In fact, the pseudo-liberal takes advantage of this popular misconception and uses the idealistic beliefs of the true liberal to further his own socialist socio-political agenda. Lenin understood the political function of the liberal character for facilitating a communist takeover in Europe very well. He referred to liberals as “useful idiots”.

This relationship between the true liberal and the pseudo-liberal/communist is illustrated in the recent Occupy Wall Street movement. The true liberal rightly protests the criminal practices of people in the financial and business world that have recently surfaced. By identifying himself as a true liberal, the emotional plague in the person of the pseudo-liberal character injects his venom with the same worn out anti-Wall Street, anti-capitalist nostrums that he has been peddling for ages. The result is that the true liberal’s rational concerns about corruption in the business world are lost. The emotional plague paralyzes rational thinking. By not recognizing that Occupy Wall Street is an outbreak of the emotional plague, the public cannot effectively contain its social destructiveness.

October 22, 2011
Categories: character structure, emotional plague, Politics, Social Sciences, socio-political character . Tags: Occupy Wall Street . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 5 Comments

The Economic Blueprint Of The Obama Administration

In order to have a true understanding of social events one has to look at the effects or consequences of these events; that is, one has to think functionally. Recognizing President Obama’s economic strategy is clear to anyone who looks carefully at the consequences of his policies. Consisting of four parts, the first three originate from his secondary destructive layer. The fourth from his superficial layer or facade.

Part One: Weaken and control the private sector by placing unnecessary obstacles (“regulations”) in the way of the free market. Encourage government dependency by increasing the numbers of workers in the public sector and unionizing government employees. Shifting power to the public sector has the effect of increasing the political power of his presidency.

Part Two: Encourage political activism. Create social agitation and chaos by instituting unrealistic, unworkable social programs that will inevitably result in increased unemployment and social unrest. Through political activism, mobilize society by turning people against each other and against capitalism. This is reminiscent of the class struggle tactic used by old-time communists. The anti-capitalist Occupy Wall Street movement was abetted by a recent speech given by Obama himself against Wall Street financial institutions. Breaking the entire underpinning of America’s economic strength by destroying its financial system is rationalized as justifiable because of a handful of corrupt businessmen. Would it not make more sense to punish the wrongdoers instead of destroying the entire financial system of the country? Social agitation used in the service of government takeover was another tactic well-known to old-time communists.

Part Three: “Rescue” the country from the economic mess by instituting more socialistic programs.

Part Four: Use the democratic process itself as a weapon. The administration pretends that they are all loyal Americans and that they are doing all this because it is for the best interest of the country.

One of the greatest tragedies in recent history is that two decades after winning the Cold War against a deadly socialist empire, America should fall victim to the same dreadful disease from within.

October 15, 2011
Categories: emotional plague, Politics, Social Sciences, socio-political character . Tags: Barack Obama . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 2 Comments