Politics | Charles Konia, M.D.

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

Protest Movements, Then And Now

From a historical perspective, there is an important difference between the protest movement of the 1960s and the current Occupy Wall Street protest movement. This can be understood as a result of the transformation of society from authoritarian to anti-authoritarian that occurred around that time. Both protest movements originate from a serious disturbance in the two basic functions of human life, sexuality and work.

The protesters of the 60s were a a product of the authoritarian social order. Initially, they were a highly idealistic group of young people who wanted sexual freedom (a core function) and to be rid of the shackles of conventional morality. Tragically, the movement ended in disaster individually, because most of these youngsters were too disturbed emotionally to achieve sexual happiness and socially, because the movement was taken over and used for political purposes by leftist ideologues. These were the reasons for the failure of the so-called sexual revolution.

By contrast, today’s protesters are a product of the post-1960s, anti-authoritarian social order. Unable to take advantage of the enormous amount of freedom and opportunity that is readily available to them in America, they want the exact opposite. Many of them evidence a severe disturbance in their work function because the thought of working to have what they want never seems to occur to them. Instead, they want the security of being taken care of by the government. In sharp contrast to the earlier protesters, security is more important to them than freedom. This is the reason that a large majority of these protesters are leftist ideologues.

The Wall Street protesters are an emotionally far sicker bunch than the protesters of the past. Having no contact with their core, the energy behind their protesting comes entirely from their middle layer as bratty destructiveness. The last thing that these protesters need is to have their childish behavior encouraged. This is exactly what the Obama administration seems to be doing. If economic conditions continue to worsen, as they most likely will if Obama is reelected in 2012, this group has the potential of doing even greater social harm by escalating their interference with public life.

October 20, 2011
Categories: character structure, Politics, Social Sciences . Tags: Barack Obama, Occupy Wall Street, sexual revolution . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 3 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

The Worldwide Disillusionment With Politicians and Politics

People throughout the world are becoming fed up with politicians on both sides of the political spectrum. The Left accuses the Right of being for rich, greedy capitalists and the Right accuses the Left of promoting socialist causes. Both blame each other for being corrupt. Out of frustration, many become disillusioned altogether and blame the democratic process itself as being unworkable. In America, the Tea Party movement originated in response to this disillusionment with politics. An article in the New York Times (September 28, 2011), As scorn for vote grows, Protests Surge Around Globe, describes a similar disillusionment with politics throughout the world.

Blaming this or that group is an effective way of avoiding looking at the source of what is really happening. By coming up with one disastrous social policy after another, the Left refuses to understand that politics can never provide solutions to humanities social problems. The Right has a sense that government intervention cannot improve social conditions but neither group understands that the source of societies difficulties resides in people themselves, in the destructive social behavior of all armored humans, politicians and non-politicians alike. Wilhelm Reich identified this behavior and called it the emotional plague of mankind (see glossary). The accusations of the Left and Right that are directed against each other are, in fact, symptomatic of the destructive social manifestation of emotionally crippled humans such as the desire for power over others, social dependency on others and so on. The primary function of the accusations is defensive. It is to conceal the plague’s existence. This tragic situation is the reason that social conditions will continue to worsen despite humanity’s best efforts and wishes.

October 3, 2011
Categories: Politics, Social Sciences . . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 2 Comments

There Is Now A True, Functional Science Of Sociology

When Auguste Comte first delineated sociology as a natural field of study in 1838, there was no understanding of the biological forces at play in the social interactions between and among people. First there had to be knowledge of the biological forces acting within people before the dynamics of social interactions could be understood. Freud’s discovery of the unconscious was a necessary first step in this endeavor. Wilhelm Reich’s elucidation of the three layers of the bio-psychic structure of armored humans, the superficial layer, the destructive middle layer (the Freudian unconscious) and the core (the repository of primary biological impulses) in The Mass Psychology of Fascism represented the true beginning of a scientific sociology.

Reich saw in the ethical ideals of liberalism the social representation of the superficial layer of the individual’s character. The ethics of the liberal serves to keep down the destructive impulses contained in the middle layer. The liberal can recognize the destructiveness of fascist characters on the political Right (Black Fascists). However, because of similarities in his character structure, the liberal is unable to recognize the social destructiveness of fascist characters on the Left (Red Fascists/pseudo-liberals). In fact, he aids and abets them.

From his clinical experience, Reich found that the ideology of the Black Fascist is the expression of the destructive middle layer. By contrast, the ideology of the Red Fascist is the pretense at defense against expression of the destructive middle layer. This ability to dissemble also makes it more difficult for people to recognize the Red fascist than the black Fascist. Moreover, fascist ideologies did not only exist in those who belonged to fascist political parties. They could appear in any person living in an authoritarian society. Reich discovered the emotional plague of armored humans in the expression of the secondary destructive layer of ordinary individuals toward each other. Communists (today’s pseudo-liberals) and Fascists were simply examples of emotional plague characters operating from the extremes of the political Left and the Right.

Elsworth Baker’s discovery of socio-political characterology (Man in the Trap) finally placed sociology on a functional, biologically based, scientific foundation. In addition to the emotional plague character, Baker identified two other socio-political character types. Belonging on the left and right of the socio-political spectrum, they are, respectively, the liberal and the conservative characters. Living in the social surface, the liberal is in favor of social “improvement” but has no idea of the depth and enormity of people’s emotional sickness that prevent them from improving. In effect, bad social situations are made worse. The conservative, having no solutions to offer for social improvement, can only politically oppose the liberal’s harebrained policies. Baker demonstrated clinically that the differences in the ideologies of people on the left and right originated from differences in the pattern of their armor. Since ideologies are bio-social forces in the form of fixed belief systems, the ideologies of the left and right function as socio-political forces that are in constant opposition.

Understanding socio-political characterology permitted one to make sense of current social events with unfailing accuracy. For example, it allowed one to recognize that beginning around 1960, a social transformation of catastrophic proportions took place from authoritarian to anti-authoritarian, a transformation that is now threatening to destroy Western society as we have known it. Prior to that time, the social order was authoritarian. There were approximately equal numbers of liberals and conservatives in the general population. This balance in social forces permitted a degree of social and political stability. The anti-authoritarian transformation resulted in a shift to the extreme left of political center with the prevalence of leftist ideologues who were placed in high social levels through democratic processes. This resulted in the destabilization of society and the headlong descent of America into a socialist state. In today’s anti-authoritarian Western society, socialist thinking is increasingly becoming accepted by the public as the politically correct norm.

September 22, 2011
Categories: Biological Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences . Tags: anti-authoritarian society, authoritarian, character structure, politically correct, socio-political character . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 2 Comments

The Problem With Today’s Psychiatric Therapies

At the root of the problem with all psychiatric therapies is the lack of a functional understanding of a whole series of interrelated, unanswered fundamental questions starting with what constitutes emotional health and sickness? From this question, the following questions logically arise: What are emotions? What is an emotional disturbance? How can emotional disturbances be classified scientifically to provide a rational system of diagnosis and treatment? Without satisfactorily answering all of these questions it is not possible to arrive at a rational, causal method of psychiatric therapy.

Unfortunately, these questions cannot be adequately answered because people’s armored condition prevents them from thinking functionally. Instead, today’s approach to psychiatric therapies falls into two general categories, mechanistic or symptom-based treatment and mystical or “holistic” treatment. Symptom-based approaches to diagnosis, and treatments such as drug therapy and behavior therapy are superficial and of limited value. From an etiological point of view, any symptom can appear in any diagnostic category. The holistic approach does away with the problem of symptoms by focusing on the patient’s “wellness” and the “whole patient” but it evades the problem of diagnosis altogether.

From a functional view, the clinical significance of any symptom is the function that it serves in relation to the individual’s particular character diagnosis. Therefore, understanding the patient’s character structure comes before the significance of the symptom can be understood. This is why it is not possible to correctly treat a psychiatric disorder from a curative point of view without first having established an accurate diagnosis.

Rather than deriving their clinical thinking from their clinical observations, armored therapists force their observations to fit into their preconceived mechanistic-mystical ways of thinking, thereby doing a grave disservice to their patients as well as bringing about the destruction of a once highly respected profession.

September 18, 2011
Categories: accurate diagnosis, character structure, Medical Sciences, Politics, psychiatric therapies, Social Sciences . Tags: accurate diagnosis, character diagnosis, psychiatric therapy . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 1 Comment

The Spread Of The Emotional Plague In Today’s World

The emotional plague was discovered by Wilhelm Reich around 1940 when the authoritarian social order was intact. At that time, there were still pockets of social life that were not infested by it. In today’s anti-authoritarian social order, there is not one area of society that the plague has not penetrated. As a result, every one of the core functions of life to a large extent has been obliterated. In its place, virtually every kind of behavior from the secondary destructive layer- the emotional plague- is permitted expression, often with the protection of the law. Consider, for example, the flagrant abuse of First Amendment rights.

What is the source of the exacerbation of the emotional plague in today’s anti-authoritarian social order? The answer lies in an understanding of socio-political characterology. True liberal characters live almost exclusively from the surface layer or facade of their bio-psychic structure. Through their intellect, they use their facade to defend themselves from their destructive middle layer. They are, therefore, socially benign people. In contrast, pseudo-liberal characters pretend to believe in the ideals of liberalism by, for example, belonging to the Democratic Party in America. This conscious tactic serves to identify them as legitimate liberals in the public’s eyes and allows them to express impulses from their destructive middle layer, the emotional plague, in their social policies.

Pseudo-liberal characters are the primary carriers of the emotional plague in today’s anti-authoritarian society. No different from old time communists, they are highly intelligent and well adapted to the ways of the modern world in carrying out their destructive social agenda. They are the ones most responsible for the widespread social decline that is currently taking place exactly because they have successfully infiltrated the politicat mainstream of Western Societies and have become part of their institutions and governments. Like any infectious disease, people must first recognize its existence and destructiveness before remedial action can be taken to oppose them.

September 14, 2011
Categories: Medical Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences . . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 1 Comment

What Is Most Difficult To See

The hardest thing for people to see is what is happening right in front of their eyes. Because people’s way of seeing and thinking is distorted by armor, they often cannot see social processes for what they really are. As an example of people’s psychic blindness, consider their inability to recognize the transformation of the order of Western society from authoritarian to anti-authoritarian that began around 1960 and is now threatening to obliterate Western society as we have known it. People cannot see the totality of this historic cataclysm and the resultant destructive social and economic effect that it continues to have on everyone’s life. At most, people are able to recognize what is happening in bits and pieces focusing on this or that particular manifestation of a social decline. The majority are completely oblivious of the fact that anything unusual is going on. Moreover, those who recognize that something destructive is happening think about the transformation strictly from within the context of the social facade. They do not understand that from a functional perspective a social upheaval is erupting on the social surface but that it’s origins are from the depths of the bio-psychic structure of armored humans, from their destructive middle layer and from their biological core.

Unable to recognize why and how a fundamental transformation in social life is taking place leaves everyone completely helpless to do anything genuinely constructive. It can be predicted with absolute certainty that unless the dynamic bio-social forces underlying the transformation are understood and addressed, social, economic and political conditions will continue to deteriorate. The first step to address it would be to recognize that a social transformation of fundamental proportions is, in fact, taking place.

September 5, 2011
Categories: Biological Sciences, Medical Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences . . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 8 Comments

The Most Effective Anti-communists Are Ex-communists

Communism/pseudo-liberalism is a highly infectious, socially communicable disease manifested as a ruthless ideology. Identifying itself with different labels such as progressive , new leftist, socialist, it is extremely adaptable to changing social conditions and it functions to wreck havoc on social life. Because of its highly seductive facade of idealism, young people are especially prone to be infected by it. Once the infection takes hold of the individual, it largely determines his or her course of life and thinking.

In rare cases, the individual recovers from the disease. When this happens, exposure to communism confers a kind of immunity and resistance to it. This first-hand personal experience with communism provides a clearer sense of its destructiveness and how the disease operates than is understood by those who have not been infected by it. One has a feeling from the writing of recovered communists that their anti-communism comes from their gut and not only from their intellect as it often does in anti-communists who were not previously infected. The recovered ones seem to have a deeper sense of the true source of the disease. Some current examples of these survivors are David Horowitz and Norman Podhoretz although there are many others.

For example, comparing Obama to communists of the past, Podhoretz writes, “… whereas the communists had in their delusional vision of the Soviet Union a model of the kind of society that would replace the one they were bent on destroying, the new leftists only knew what they were against: America, or Amerika as they spelled it to suggest its kinship to Nazi Germany. Thanks, however, to the unmaking of the Soviet Union as a totalitarian nightmare, they did not know what they were for. Yet once they had pulled off the incredible feat of taking over the Democratic Party … they dropped the vain hope of a revolution, and in the social democratic system most fully developed in Sweden found an alternative to American capitalism that had a realistic possibility of being achieved through gradual political reform… It was only with the advent of Barack Obama that the leftists at long last succeeded in nominating one of their own.” (The Wall Street Journal August 13-14, 2011).

What is the difference in the approach of Obama’s anti-communist critics between those who are recovered anti-communists and those who did not go through the process of “immunization”? Most conservatives who are not recovered anti-communists appear to be stuck in the social facade of rationalism. Their opposition to Obama’s policies are exclusively based on their reasoning powers. However, although Obama’s political agenda is expressed from the superficial layer, it originates almost entirely from the destructive middle layer of his pseudo-liberal character structure. This is why reason cannot touch it. Ex-communist critics of Obama, on the other hand, because of their past exposure to the disease, have a better sense of the destructive source of his political policies and this perspective is more effective in recognizing and exposing who Mr. Obama really is to the public.

August 26, 2011
Categories: Biological Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences . . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: Leave a comment