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From The History Of The Emotional Plague: The Solution Of Conservatism

With the transformation of society from authoritarian to anti-authoritarian that started around 1960, the floodgates that were holding back the great destructive secondary layer drives of humanity for thousands of years gave way and the full force of the emotional plague inundated the Western world like a tsunami. Spreading its infection into every corner of human life including, in particular, political life in America, it continues it’s devastation unnoticed by almost everyone.

Politician’s knee-jerk response to this cataclysmic event depended entirely on their socio-political character structure. Those on the extreme left, the communists, immediately saw it as an opportunity to take political advantage of the situation. Taking well-meaning liberals along with them, they pretended to be one of them and became pseudo-liberals. They rode on the wave of social destruction that was taking place in the following years, added their leftist “solutions” to the devastation and passed off these changes as ” social progress” to a gullible public. On the other hand, conservatives in both political parties (Democratic as well as Republican) fought to resist the social destructiveness, but because they had no idea of the nature of the evil that they were fighting and because their only way of opposing the plague was through political means, their attempts were in vain.

The defeat of the Democratic Party’s standard-bearer Hubert Humphrey to Richard Nixon in 1968 marked the “beginning of the end” for the conservative faction of that party, many of whom went on to become “neoconservatives”. Meanwhile, the traditional political role of the Democratic Party consisting of true liberals was rapidly fading as it became under the control of the pseudo-liberal contingent.

In reaction to the communist threat in the 1950s and to the global outbreak of the emotional plague in the 1960’s, the conservative movement slowly began to organize in America from different sources, mainly from those who had belonged to the Republican Party and became the Conservative Party. Most recently, the Tea Party movement, founded in 2009, has proven a large outlet for conservatism. Their stated political goals include adherence to the U.S. Constitution, lower taxes, and the opposition to the federal government’s encroachment into areas that are outside of its province such as health care.

Depending on where they are to the right of the socio-political spectrum, conservatives have varying degrees of undistorted core contact. Because they only deal on a superficial, political level with the emotional plague’s many symptoms, the conservative movement’s effectiveness in opposing its spread has been limited. Unfortunately, focusing on the symptoms and not the underlying disease itself inevitably turns the rational effort at containment of the plague into “politics as usual,” an endless ideological battle between the opposing political forces of the left and the right. The net result is one victory after another for the forces of the emotional plague.

May 31, 2012
Categories: character structure, emotional plague, Politics, Social Sciences, socio-political character . Tags: anti-authoritarian transformation, communism, conservatism, liberalism, neoconservatism, pseudo-liberalism . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: Leave a comment

From The History Of The Emotional Plague: The Solution Of Liberalism

Because the existence of the emotional plague is not recognized, every new attempt to deal with its ravages turns into another, even more destructive expression of the plague than the one before. Beginning around the 17th century, the liberal movement in Europe was an attempt to break away from the chains of Christian repression and mysticism that held people in bondage for over a thousand years. In the 21st century, this liberal movement has shifted far to the political left and has developed into pseudo-liberal/communism which is an anti-authoritarian form of secular repression. Pseudo-liberal/communism is the application of mechanistic mystical thinking to daily life in America. It is a far more invasive and deadly manifestation of the emotional plague than the authoritarian system that it has replaced.

Liberals function primarily from the superficial layer of their bio-psychic structure. Their mode of operation is through the use of their intellect in a defensive manner. to protect them from experiencing the destructiveness that is contained in their middle layer. From their defensive intellectualism originates the two other characteristics of the liberal syndrome, a mechanistic explanation of natural phenomena and a collectivistic attitude toward social living.

There are several important socio-political consequences to the liberal’s living, perceiving and thinking primarily from their superficial layer.

1) Since the liberal has no contact with his secondary layer, he also has little contact with his biological core. He therefore has no deep emotional sense of the existence of good and evil or of the emotional plague of mankind. This is the reason for his moral relativism and his believing that all human beings are essentially good and that even hardened criminals can be rehabilitated.

2) Living from the superficial layer, the liberal perceives everything from the surface. For example, the liberal physician looks at medical illnesses exclusively from the perspective of the superficial symptom or the immediate biochemical manifestations of the disease. Not capable of understanding the deeper biological causes of disease, his therapy is focused on eliminating the disturbing symptom. The liberal economist and politician does the same in the economic and political realms. The liberal sociologist has no sense that a social transformation of catastrophic proportions from authoritarian to anti-authoritarian that began around 1960 is rapidly undermining the stability of Western civilization.

3) Because the liberal’s defense against feeling is from his intellect and not his musculature, the liberal political leader relies heavily on his rational powers derived from his well developed intellect to deal with domestic issues and threats to national security. His fear of open aggression prevents him from being able to take a forceful aggressive stand and, by misleading our enemies to think of America as weak, is capable of putting this country and the world in mortal danger.

Political correctness is cultural Marxism. It is Marxism translated from economics into cultural terms. When the morality of political correctness becomes firmly anchored in the superficial layer of the liberal individual’s bio-psychic structure, the liberal’s socio-political character rigidifies and changes into one of pseudo-liberal/communist. The individual functions as an emotional plague character. With the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States in 2008, the pseudo-liberal/communist character entered the mainstream of American politics on the left and became legitimized.

May 28, 2012
Categories: character structure, emotional plague, Politics, Social Sciences, socio-political character . Tags: Barack Obama, christianity, liberalism, political correctness, pseudo-liberal/communism . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 14 Comments

Communism/Socialism Is A Cancer Of The Social Body

In articles written in the Journal of Orgonomy ( Vol. 20 Nos. 1,2) entitled Cancer and Communism, I show that from a functional perspective individuals and societies are biological systems and that cancer in an individual living system is functionally identical to communism/socialism in a social system. This identical relationship of cancer to communism (including socialism) is valid from a bio-energetic standpoint since both conditions are examples of diseased biological systems that are in a process of bio-energetic decay and disintegration. Communism is in a more advanced state of decay than socialism.

Cancer is a systemic disease involving the whole organism. The cancer tumor is a local symptom of the disease. Similarly, communism/ socialism is a disease of the entire society. The various social manifestations are superficial symptoms of a diseased society. In the cancer disease, the cancer tumor through its vascular supply continually draws off energy from what remains alive of the healthy part of the organism eventually killing the host. The exact same parasitic process occurs in the case of communism and of socialism in America today where people who are in need of the government for their survival including most of the public sector feed off of the productive labor of those in the private sector who are the life blood of the economy.

The strategy of today’s pseudo-liberal\communists is to undermine people’s independence in every possible way and to foster economic dependency on the government. For example, every one of President Obama’s socialist policies such as waiving college students loans, unionizing and increasing the number of public sector employees, encouraging disgruntled youths to riot by supporting their rebellious social “causes” (i.e. the Occupy Wall Street movement), providing extended welfare care for the able bodied unemployed, and so on, function to worsen people’s already disturbed biological work function.

This strategy is in the service of weakening the working power of individuals and of increasing power of the Federal Government and ultimately destroying the heathy American social system that the “social cancer” feeds on. When this happens, no one will understand how this once great nation was destroyed just as no one today understands the true cause of the cancer disease.

May 25, 2012
Categories: emotional plague, Medical Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences, socio-political character . Tags: Barack Obama, cancer, communism, pseudo-liberal/communist, work disturbance . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 4 Comments

Why “Stimulus Packages” Do Not Work

In order to have an understanding of any kind of human activity, a sense of the three layers of the human bio-psychicic structure, the superficial layer, the destructive middle layer and the biological core is absolutely necessary. Economic activity is no exception. Originating from the biological core, all economic activity is a result of the productive work function operating between people.

Money has no intrinsic value. The value of money is ultimately derived from and is sustained by people’s ability to work productively. When the quality and the quantity of people’s work function deteriorates in any way, the value of money also declines and the nation becomes a little poorer. Stated differently, it takes more money to do the same amount of work than before. A commonly overlooked but serious manifestation of the general deterioration of the work function in today’s society is people’s willingness to assume a state of indebtedness to a far greater degree than a level of responsibility required to discharge the financial obligation through work. Thus, the economic recession that is currently upon us is a direct manifestation of people’s work disturbance in the workplace. It is an example of an expression of the secondary destructive layer of armored humans.

The stimulus package that President Obama signed into law in 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment act, ABRA, has as alleged primary objective to save and create new jobs. It’s actual way of bringing about this goal is to provide temporary relief (welfare) programs for those who are most impaired by the recession and to invest in infrastructure, education, health and “green” energy programs. The rationale of the stimulus package is from Keynesian macroeconomic theory which argues that the government should offset the decrease in private spending by an increase in public spending in order to stop further economic deterioration. It is an example of how liberals see all problems from the social surface and deal with social and economic problems exclusively from their superficial layer.

Furthermore, ABRA is a clear expression of the emotional plague. The alleged objective of the stimulus package (to save and create more jobs) is one that no rational person can have any argument with. However, the way that this highly idealistic goal is to be implemented, the true motive (through increased governmental spending and instilling increased dependency of people on the Federal government through welfare and other socialist programs) is cleverly pushed into law and overlooked by almost everyone. Nothing is mentioned about people’s emotional neediness or of their inability to work for what they want. These are primary manifestations of people’s emotional sickness originating from their secondary destructive layer that are expressed in the social realm as the emotional plague.

By ignoring this reality and not dealing with the source of the problem (people’s underlying work disturbance) the stimulus program is likely to worsen the current economic situation. The economic recommendations of the political right, fiscal responsibility by cutting spending and taxes and letting the market regulate itself comes closer to addressing the current economic problems of armored humanity than all the “solutions” provided by today’s leftist ideologues.

May 20, 2012
Categories: Biological Sciences, emotional plague, Politics, Social Sciences, socio-political character . Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Barack Obama, conservatism, work disturbance . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 2 Comments

The Common Understanding Of “Character” Is Not Enough

In a recent Wall Street Journal article “America’s Crisis of Character” (April 21-22 2012), conservative columnist Peggy Noonan cites that the week’s Gallup poll showed that only 24% of Americans feel that the nation was on the right track. She attributes the dissatisfaction to the widespread cultural degradation that is taking place in every area of American life . She is “worried about the American character-who we are and what kind of adults we are raising.”

Typical of conservatives, the use of the concept of character in this way is unfortunately fraught with strong pejorative and moral overtones (i.e. “good” vs “bad” character) and is, therefore, of not much help in providing an understanding and management of the source of social problems.

There is now a true science of character. First discovered by Wilhelm Reich and extended into the social and political arena by Elsworth Baker, knowledge of characterology can dramatically help people to effectively deal with today’s social destructiveness. Reich described character functionally as the individual’s stereotypical manner of acting and reacting in all, (including social and political) situations. The primary function of character is to protect (armor) the individual from feeling unpleasant and unacceptable emotions and sensations. A functional understanding of character can be essential to know how a person will behave in any given social situation.

Our anti-authoritarian society is the result of the breakdown of the traditional authoritarian family and of the numerous kinds of impulsive an anti-social character types that are currently littering the social landscape. Today’s anti-social behavior that Ms. Noonan describes in her article is a direct result of this breakdown. Without an understanding of the function of character armor and of the anti-authoritrian transformation of society that we are living in, all attempts at trying to make sense of what is happening to our society are bound to be futile. The only thing the political right can accomplish is to retard the social degradation into socialism. It can do nothing to arrest or reverse it.

April 26, 2012
Categories: character structure, emotional plague, Politics, Social Sciences, socio-political character . Tags: anti-authoritarian society, Elsworth Baker, Peggy Noonan, Wilhelm Reich . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 5 Comments

The Source Of Barack Obama’s Popularity

The source of a politician’s popularity comes from the people. A question that is not asked is, how can an individual like Barack Obama who has performed so poorly as President of The United States in almost every area enjoy the enormous popularity that he has to the point that he actually has a good chance of being reelected to a second term in office?

In order to answer this question, it must first be known from which layer of their bio-psychic structure does people’s attraction to Obama originate, the superficial layer or facade, the destructive middle layer,or from the biological core. Most Blacks (98%) voted for Obama in 2008. Many of them did so because they identified with him as being Black. For them, only Obama’s blackness, not his political thinking, was the primary distinguishing feature that mattered. This group was attracted to Obama from the superficial layer of their bio-psychic structure.

With the anti-authoritarian transformation of society, there was a breakthrough of the emotional plague and a shift to the left of the political mainstream as leftist ideology became the dominant force driving socio-political activity in the West. As a result, many diverse groups of all classes of people including White as well as Black leftist ideologues and particularly those in the media as well as others who somehow believed that the government should take care of them, became swept up in a political movement that ran on a vague platform of “change” led by savior-candidate Obama. A recent Washington Post/ABC poll shows by a 2-to-1 ratio that the president is more “friendly and likable” than Mitt Romney. These group’s attraction to Obama originate from the superficial and from the powerful destructive middle layers of their bio-psychic structure.

Thus, Obama and most if not all of his supporters have contact with each other through their superficial and middle layers. In today’s anti-authoritarian society, the biological core of human beings has been all but obliterated from social life leaving only the superficial and destructive middle layers to determine social processes. How long can a society last that has absolutely no undistorted contact with the biological core functions of work and love that sustain it?

April 21, 2012
Categories: emotional plague, Politics, Social Sciences, socio-political character . Tags: Barack Obama, core contact . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 7 Comments

People’s Difficulty In Recognizing The Emotional Plague

People’s inability to recognize the existence of the emotional plague as a highly destructive and contagious medical disease is related to the fact that there is currently no scientific knowledge of the bio-emotional forces that govern human social life.

What must be known and understood is that differences in human armor produce differences in the way the emotional plague is misperceived and misunderstood. These differences correspond in a general way to the pattern of armor of people belonging on the left and right of the socio-political spectrum. Those on the left (liberals) live mainly in their superficial layer or facade. For them, the idea of the emotional plague is meaningless because the function of the liberal’s facade is to defend them from being aware of their destructive, middle layer (from where the emotional plague originates) and so the plague does not seem to exist for them. (The liberal’s unawareness of the plague is partly why they are an effective tool that leftist radicals can use at will to carry out their destructive social agendas.) Those on the right (conservatives) have better contact with their middle layer and their core. For conservatives, the idea of the emotional plague is real but it is perceived in a distorted form. They view the plague not as a true medical disease but as a moral human failing. They think of it in terms of “good” and “bad” human behavior and that the illness can be addressed by rational political dialogue. However, the plague is not good or bad. It cannot be stopped by political means. Like any other medical disease, the plague is embedded in the biophysical structure of plague-ridden people. The farther they are to the right of center, the more righteous and irrational are their thoughts about the plague. This view of the plague is worthless from a therapeutic standpoint since a moralistic or righteous approach can never be used to combat a contagious medical condition. (It is reminiscent of the irrationally fearful ways some contagious medical diseases, such as leprosy, syphilis and the bubonic plague, were treated before the modern era in medicine.)

Humanity cannot possibly come to grips with the emotional plague and recognize it as a deadly medical illness because their armor prevents people from seeing and thinking without distortion about problems in their individual and social lives. This is why the disease will remain a mystery and continue to ravage society until a sufficient number of qualified social scientists appear on the scene who can take an honest look at themselves and deal with the emotional plague as a true medical illness.

April 15, 2012
Categories: character structure, emotional plague, Medical Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences, socio-political character . Tags: conservative, human armor, liberal, medical illness, orgonomic sociology . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 1 Comment

People’s Difficulty In Recognizing The Emotional Plague

Divide And Conquer: The Emotional Plague At Work

The emotional plague-ridden politician will promise anything that is necessary to gain political power over people. Once in power he will renege on his promises and do whatever he must to carry out his destructive social agenda. Prior to being elected President of the United States in 2008, for example, Barack Obama promised Americans that he would bring about unity of the different factions that were tearing America apart. Since his election, Obama has consistently done exactly the opposite. He has deliberately generated social divisiveness, turning Americans against one another and exacerbating political polarization in every area of social life.

On the top of his list of groups to be alienated in this way are the “Haves” from the “Have-Nots.” Typical of the emotional plague’s way of operating, this way of dividing people is calculated to generate confusion in people’s minds (what groups are we talking about?) and also to provide a rationalization justifying the right of government to legally enter into the free market and shift wealth and power from one group, arbitrarily designated as ” the rich,” to another group, ” the poor” which includes, incidentally, those who are currently in political power. All of this is being covered over in the name of tax fairness, social justice and caring for ” the people.”

These rationalizations are designed to get the political support of an unsuspecting electorate many of whom because of their pre-existing armored perceptual structure honestly believe in the truth of these lofty ideals and mindlessly go along. An ideological alliance is thereby established between the power hungry politician and the masses of well-intentioned people who have no idea what is happening.

April 12, 2012
Categories: emotional plague, Politics, Social Sciences, socio-political character . Tags: Barack Obama . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 11 Comments

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