Social Sciences | Charles Konia, M.D.

The Free Market Is Not The Problem

The emotional plague of armored humans functions to destroy human life. Since America has the reputation of being ” the land of the free”, the emotional plague is set on destroying every manifestation of human freedom that is to be found there including the marketplace. With the best of intentions, many Americans, according to their socio-political character structure, interfere with and effectively destroy the free exchange of goods and services in America.

The Left sees the free market as corrupt and therefore should be replaced by socialism, a State controlled economic system that is corrupt to the core. Those on the right extol its virtues but often engage in every variety of criminal and quasi criminal activity the effect of which destroys people’s trust in the marketplace. Big-brain economists destroy the marketplace by manipulating economic forces from above, ostensibly to “tweak” and “fine tune” it but the effect is to immobilize the freedom in the marketplace .

By putting blame elsewhere, no one recognizes that it is not the free market that is faulty. It is people’s sick behavior manifested as the emotional plague of armored humans in the marketplace that is responsible for economic problems. The sickness in the marketplace is simply an indication of armored people’s inability to tolerate the freedom to work that a free market allows. Destroy the marketplace and you also destroy people’s ways and means of doing an honest day’s work.

The marketplace needs to be protected from the Right by aggressively recognizing and keeping criminals and quasi criminals out of it. It needs to be protected from the Left by not letting it be taken over by the State. It also needs to be protected from it’s interferance by clever, well-intentioned economist savants.

August 29, 2012
Categories: emotional plague, Politics, Social Sciences, socio-political character . Tags: criminals in the economy, functional economics, socialism, the free market . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 2 Comments

The Left Has The Advantage In Politics

The political battle between the Left and the Right is not being played-out on a level playing field and the pseudo-liberal/communist ideologues have the advantage. This is because the Right operates strictly from the social surface obeying the rules of accepted social and political behavior while the Left pretends to play by these rules, but, in fact, does whatever it can do by any means possible to achieve its destructive political agenda. That is, he functions from his destructive secondary layer. Think of the arm twisting Obama had to do to get the ObamaCare legislation to pass through Congress. He did this by not operating entirely from the social surface. He appears to stay on the social surface by talking about the spirit of bi-partisanship. But he actually acts from his destructive secondary layer by first rationalizing his political agenda as something that he himself is convinced is best for Americans so that he can then shove it down the public’s throat.

The pseudo-liberal/communist character must act subversively and, whenever possible, break the conventional rules of political conduct. He is allowed to get away with it because no one has any understanding of the existence of the pseudo-liberal/communist character and the enormous destruction that this character type is capable of doing. For example, when pseudo-liberals tampered with the voting process by implementing loose voter registration requirements in the 2008 presidential election, in effect breaking the law, nothing was done to address the situation. This subversive behavior of the Left is strongly defended. It is ignored by the leftist dominated media. When someone attempts to expose the full extent of the Left’s destructive extremism, the person is accused of being an extremist himself. Unfortunately, the Right is ill-equipped and too decent to oppose the Left’s crafty underhandedness.

August 25, 2012
Categories: emotional plague, Politics, Social Sciences, socio-political character . Tags: Barack Obama, ObamaCare, political left, political right, pseudo-liberal/communist . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 4 Comments

How The Left And The Right View Americans

In today’s divisive political atmosphere, there is a central irreconcilable difference in the thinking of the left and right as to how they view the American people. Leftist ideologues (pseudo-liberal/communists) live entirely from their superficial layer or facade. They, therefore, advocate multiculturalism and stress the superficial differences of American people as Blacks, Whites, Hispanics, Muslims and so on. They also emphasize class differences based on people’s poverty level (the “rich”, the “disadvantaged”) whenever possible. From a functional perspective, these racist and separatist tactics have a destructive effect on the social fabric by further polarizing and alienating Americans against each other and by doing so they also mobilize the targeted group to vote for the Leftists who are in power in the upcoming presidential election. The is a political strategy that has the consequence of weakening and ultimately destroying America as a nation as it was before. Lenin understood that before a communist takeover could occur in a country people first had to be mobilized through political and social activism. This is exactly how, in the name of progress, today’s leftist ideologues are imperceptibly carrying out their political agenda for America.

By contrast, those on the Right of center have varying degrees of contact with the biological core. They view America as a melting pot and regard all of its citizens similarly as Americans first and foremost; as Black Americans, White Americans, Hispanic Americans, Muslim Americans and so on. They view America as an “equal opportunity” country where all Americans regardless of their background and circumstances can satisfy their core needs if they are willing to work for it. This is a positive, tolerant and inclusive view of people that has the effect of preserving the integrity of American democracy.

August 13, 2012
Categories: emotional plague, Politics, Social Sciences, socio-political character . Tags: American democracy, equal opportunity, leftist ideologues, melting pot, multiculturalism, political strategy, racism . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 6 Comments

The Perils In Capitalism

Capitalism consists of the means of production (tools, machines, plants etc.) that contributes to or enhances productive human work and, from that, to the improvement of human life. Capitalism is a healthy, core economic function.

There is nothing inherently destructive in the function of capitalism. However, since the emotional plague of human beings is attracted to centers of power, it is strongly attracted to and destructive of capitalism. In general, the emotional plague’s mode of attack on capitalism depends on the socio-political character structure of plague ridden individuals. Those on the political right express the plague in them through destructive economic behavior such as greed (crony capitalism), theft, colluding with legislators and bureaucrats to disrupt the marketplace and so on. Those on the political left express hostility toward capitalism defensively through their intellect. Their support in enacting socialistic legislation is to destroy the marketplace. Their goal is to transfer the function of capitalism and the center of power from the private sector (private capitalism) to the State ( state capitalism). (Successful entrepreneurs belonging on the political left do not support capitalism because of their fear of physical expression of aggression and competitiveness in the marketplace.)

These different ways that the emotional plague attacks the function of capitalism allows both the left and the right to blame each other. By so doing they avoid looking within at their own destructive behavior. The existence of the plague and it’s destructiveness continues to be unnoticed while the core function of capitalism-improving people’s standard of living when not interfered with by armored humans-remains ignored.

August 8, 2012
Categories: emotional plague, Politics, Social Sciences . Tags: capitalism, functional economics, private capitalism, state capitalism . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 2 Comments

The System Of Checks And Balances In American Government Has Failed

One of the safeguards against tyranny instituted by the Founding Fathers was a system of checks and balances of power by separating the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government. However, this system could only work as long as people had the capacity for rational thinking and the authoritarian social order, where authority resided in individuals and on local social levels, was intact. The authoritarian social order in America was the foundation that made it possible for a division of power to exist.

With the anti-authoritarian transformation of society, there was a shift in the political mainstream to the left of center with an enormous concentration of power transferred to the Federal Government. The power of individuals to rationally think for themselves has been largely replaced by the collective ideology of the political left in a majority of those in the three branches of the Federal Government. The only remaining life-positive force to oppose this destructive ideology resides in the voting power of the American people in the 2012 elections.

August 6, 2012
Categories: emotional plague, Politics, Social Sciences, socio-political character . Tags: 2012 elections, anti-authoritarian transformation of society, checks and balances of power, current-events, destructive leftist ideology . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 10 Comments

What Do Obama Supporters Have In Common?

Obama supporters belong in varying degrees somewhere on the left of the socio-political spectrum.There are two characteristics that all Obama supporters have in common and they generally fall into two groups. The first group identifies with Obama as the underdog. Looking upon Obama mystically as a modern-day savior, this group includes most Blacks, the majority of Jewish voters, Feminists, homosexuals and all those who emotionally see themselves as “disadvantaged.” The second group sympathizes with the downtrodden out of unconscious feelings of guilt and pity. This group includes the majority of well-intentioned, well-heeled, white liberal intellectuals. They see Obama as the one best qualified to mete out the social and political justice for those who are targeted to qualify as “underprivileged.”

The first group’s support of Obama originates from a defense against unexpressed feelings of revenge, resentment and contempt of people who are labelled by the leftist media as being better off than they are. This group is the underdog and Obama is its imagined ally against this “privileged” class. Out of their neurotic helplessness and sense of entitlement, they expect Obama to “redistribute” the wealth from the ” haves” by providing them to the ” have nots.” The second group’s support of Obama originates from feelings of guilt and pity of people whom they imagine are less fortunate. These feelings are displaced from their personal lives to the social and political arenas. Their guilt and good intentions hide their emotionally based intolerance of people they regard as top dogs, the authoritarian moguls of our society that they subversively tear down.

From a biophysical perspective, both groups cannot directly and openly express feelings of aggression and hate from their core and their destructive middle layer. As a result, they see Obama through rose colored glasses as the person who somehow will make the world a better place for everyone, a role that Obama is only too willing to assume to promote his own destructive political agenda. Both groups of Obama supporters play directly into his hands which is to covertly agitate for a class struggle by pitting one group of Americans against another for purposes of weakening and ultimately destroying America as a unified nation.

Fomenting class warfare has always been a typical tool of leftist radicles to destabilize a country. It matters not a whit whether Obama or his supporters are aware or not of what they are doing. Nor does it matter what their intentions are. What matters is that the effect of their actions is divisive and highly destructive to the American nation.

July 28, 2012
Categories: character structure, emotional plague, Politics, Social Sciences, socio-political character . Tags: Barack Obama, class struggle, liberal intellectuals, Obama for president, politics . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 12 Comments

The Colorado Shooting Could Have Been Prevented If…

The shooting that occurred on July 20, 2012 in Aurora Colorado could have been prevented if the significance of seemingly isolated prior events were recognized and integrated into a whole picture beforehand.

Firstly, from a general description of the shooter as a shy, introverted loner it could have been conjectured that there was a possibility that he was some type of schizophrenic character. Secondly, from the fact that shortly after starting graduate school he dropped out for no apparent reason, it could have been surmised that he was undergoing a psychotic breakdown at that time. Although these observations were presumptive evidence that the individual was having a psychotic break, they gave no indication that he was homicidal. However, a third observation made by his neighbors was a strong indication that he actually was potentially a homicidal paranoid schizophrenic: Shortly before the shooting, he covered the windows of his apartment with newspapers. To a trained psychiatrist, the emotional significance of this act was a telltale sign that he was in a state of acute psychotic panic and that, as a result, he was suffering from persecutory delusions. From his perspective, he was in mortal danger for at least two months prior to the shootings and this is why he had to arm himself to the hilt offensively and defensively in every way possible in order to protect himself from harm. From this perspective, it was irrelevant whether he bought a thousand rounds or ten thousand of ammunition. By playing the Joker, the murders were a psychotic attempt to defend himself from his inner terror by projecting the source of the danger to his life onto the outside world.

If the emotional significance of his suddenly covering the windows was correctly understood by those around him as a bizarrely psychotic act, it could have been possible to prevent this and other similar tragic events from happening. (Remember that the Oslo mass murderer also covered his windows just prior to the killings.) It is possible with knowledge that is currently available to educate the public to be aware of the behavioral signs and symptoms in people that lead them to commit homicidal acts.

July 23, 2012
Categories: character structure, Social Sciences, socio-political character . Tags: Colorado shooting, homicidal impulses, Oslo massacre, paranoid schizophrenia, prevention, public education . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 15 Comments

Why Liberals Must Vote For Obama In 2012

The primary determinants of political belief and action are based on the individual’s socio-political character structure. Belonging on the political left, the liberal character functions mainly from his superficial layer or facade because the morality and the ideology of the political left originate from this layer. It’s function is to defend against the liberal individual’s perceiving impulses from his core and destructive middle layers. This perceptual distortion is why the liberal cannot act forcefully when physical aggression is required and it is why because of his guilt that he is quick to identify with America’s enemies whenever there is an international dispute. Despite his lack of aggression and free floating guilt, however, the true liberal has always been a loyal American and a supporter of her democratic ideals.

Then around 2007, a colossal hoax was perpetrated on the American public. Seemingly out of nowhere and with little known of his past history, Barack Obama, an individual with an entirely different (pseudo-liberal/communist) character structure was introduced to the American public as a member of the political mainstream, as a no nonsense, honest to goodness, legitimate liberal member of the Democratic Party. This was a brilliant coup that was accomplished, in part, by effectively concealing his past association with leftist radicals and, in part, by his being actively promoted by the mainstream media for what he was not.

Most liberal characters were unable to see this coup because they live almost entirely from their superficial layer. Living from their intellect prevented them from seeing and feeling what was happening in front of their eyes and in their depths. This is why it was a simple matter for Obama to pass himself off as one of them. All he had to do was feed them the liberal’s idealistic slogans that they love hearing enough times to sound convincing to them (“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”) etc. This he successfully did in his 2008 presidential campaign.

However, the similarity between the true liberal and Barack Obama is delusory. In contrast to the liberal, Obama merely pretends to be defended against the expression of his destructive middle layer. Cut off from his biological core, Obama’s superficial layer is entirely in the service of expressing his destructive middle layer against America. He expresses his contempt and hatred of the tradition of independence, resourcefulness and individual responsibility that is characteristic of Americans whenever possible, something that is impossible for the liberal to recognize. No other Democratic American president no matter how liberal from Roosevelt to Clinton has been as disdainful of America and Americans as Obama. Because of the seeming similarity in their structures, liberals must vote for Obama even if Obama’s economic and social policies actually run counter to their own interests.

July 22, 2012
Categories: character structure, emotional plague, Politics, Social Sciences, socio-political character . Tags: Barack Obama, Clinton, Democratic Party., free floating guilt, leftist ideology and morality, liberal American presidents, liberal vote for Obama, physical aggression, political belief, politics, Roosevelt . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 7 Comments

The Origin Of Armored Morality

Natural morality originates from the biological core and is directly expressed through the surface undistorted by armor from the destructive middle layer.

The differences in the armored morality of the political right and the left has to do with how each group deals with their destructive middle layer and also with the anti-authoritarian transformation of Western society. During the authoritarian era (prior to around 1960) the predominant form of morality was authoritarian: From a biophysical standpoint, impulses originating from people’s biological core passed through their destructive middle layer and were expressed through the superficial layer. The amount of destructive middle layer that was contained in the moral impulse was proportional to how far the individual was to the political right of the socio-political spectrum. Because impulses passed from the core through the destructive middle layer, most people in those days were in contact with both layers and, as a result, the distinction between good and evil was easily discernible to them; Good and evil, right and wrong were moral absolutes. Americans were more united in seeing the good and the greatness of their country. They saw the evilness of both red and black fascism and the need to fight when necessary to preserve their freedom. In today’s anti-authoritarian era, these people belong somewhere to the right flank of the political spectrum.

With the anti-authoritarian transformation of society, an entirely different kind of morality has developed. Called political correctness, this morality is the result of a change in the functional relationship between the superficial and destructive middle layers in people’s bio-psychic structure. Now, the superficial layer including the intellect, is not in the service of expressing impulses from the core and middle layers as in the case of authoritarian morality but in defending against the perception of impulses from the core and destructive middle layers.

This change in the bio-psychic structure of armored humans accounts for the morality of political correctness. It is the morality of those belonging on the political left: For them, all moral thinking originates from the social surface since contact with the core and destructive middle layers is lost. They distance themselves from having contact with the deeper layers by their defensive use of intellectualism and by having contempt for core feelings. Morality that originates from the superficial layer becomes a relative principle. For example, a person’s intentions which originate from the superficial layer is the ever changing yardstick which is used to measure what is valued as good or bad. Moral relativism means that nothing is intrinsically good and nothing is intrinsically bad. Thus, for example, in the case of the green “save the earth” movement, people who are involved in it are the good “morally superior” ones. They are the progressive ones on the wave of the future compared to others who are not involved in this noble quest.

A new kind of collective morality is set in place to replace the old, individually based, authoritarian form. This new morality is an attempt to eliminate the problem of the destructive secondary layer by pulling energy up into the head and thereby cutting off contact not only with the secondary layers but also with the biological core. In doing so, it throws out the baby with the bath water. By getting rid of the biological core from where the emotions originate, this new morality helps to bring about the de-humanization of the human race.

July 14, 2012
Categories: emotional plague, Politics, Social Sciences, socio-political character . Tags: armored morality, political correctness . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 19 Comments

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