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The “Occupy” Movement Is Self-sustaining

The protests which began in the summer of 2011 as the Occupy Wall Street movement that spread across our nation like an infection will be around for a long time and they will probably increase in violence. This is because of two reasons: First, they are an undisguised manifestation of the organized emotional plague and second, the existence of the plague and its operation are far from being recognized and understood by the the general public.

Ostensibly exercising their First Amendment right, the protesters have stumbled on a tactic that gives them the upper hand with the authorities and that will do as much damage to the American nation and its economic system as possible. With nothing positive to offer and with the tacit support of the American president, this movement is nothing more than an undisguised, mindless expression of pure hatred directed at America that originates from the destructive secondary layer of the protesters.

The reason that these protest movements are self-sustaining and will probably intensify is that the responsible public authority’s equivocating response makes them an active partner in support of the protester’s movement. Should the authorities stand firm and risk an escalation of violence or should they be accommodating and negotiate with the protesters ? The public authority’s helpless quibbling functions to excite the protester’s zeal and encourages them to become ever more brazen and violent. Widespread coverage of police-protester clashes on the evening news, a First Amendment right of the media, generates public interest and more confusion adding support to the protesters “cause.”

The problem of the protest movement lies outside of this narrow social framework. Until it is generally recognized that acting out personal problems and trying to work out people’s helplessness and inadequacies through politics are not the answer, nothing will change for the better.

January 22, 2012
Categories: emotional plague, Politics, Social Sciences, socio-political character, Uncategorized . . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 1 Comment

The Emotional Plague Uses The Truth As A Trojan Horse

There is always a grain of truth to the emotional plague individual’s point of view and in order to understand and fight the plague it is important to see what it is. This truth serves to demonstrate to everyone that the plague individual’s intentions are pure and above reproach and that what they are saying and agitating for is for the good of all. A recent example of this tactic of the plague is President Obama’s telling the American people that ObamaCare will be good for everyone. The use of the truth in the service of the plague is the reason that Thomas Sowell refers to leftist ideologues as “the anointed ones”. The germ of truth expressed from their facade functions like a Trojan Horse to push through their destructive socio-political agenda from their middle layer.

The basic premise of leftist radicals is that America is by its very nature a corrupt nation because the “Haves” have taken from the “Have Nots” and therefore, in order to do away with this injustice a class warfare must take place between them. This war must become actualized with violent acts when necessary in order to remove the inequality even if America is destroyed in the process.

It is true that there is corruption in America and that some people have more wealth than others and that there is economic inequality. These facts although true are twisted and used to justify bringing about America’s destruction by reducing everyone to the same level. However, what is accurate in all of this is not what the leftists accuse America of, but that they are accusing America of their own evil impulses contained in their destructive middle layer. These impulses are projected onto well-to-do people in America to bring about its destruction.

Why do they want to destroy America? Because the impulses of hatred and of revenge that originate from within them which were first directed against their own fathers are now by extension directed against all authority figures and authoritative institutions and, also against “the rich” so that no one is “better off” than they are.

January 19, 2012
Categories: emotional plague, Politics, Social Sciences, socio-political character . Tags: Barack Obama, ObamaCare . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 3 Comments

Functional Thinking Is Neither Left Nor Right

People’s individual and socio-political character armor are the primary forces determining destructive human interactions. Unfortunately,the effect of human armor on irrational thinking and behavior is not generally recognized. The harmful effects of armor lead to two ways of thinking: mechanistic or mystical. These correspond in a general way to the political ideologies of the Left and the Right. Political leaders and others who think ideologically to the left of center of the political spectrum think mechanistically; they view human beings and society as if they were a kind of machine that can be controlled and manipulated through outworn socialist schemes from the top. They have no trouble recognizing the limitations of the political Right. Political leaders and others who think ideologically to the right view humans mystically, assuming that there is some higher, mysterious purpose governing human life. They have no difficulty recognizing and opposing the destructive socialist policies promoted by the Left. When these opposing ideologies rigidify as they have today,American society becomes riven and is in danger of being destroyed.

It is not enough to see the shortcomings of the Left or the Right. Functional thinking allows one to recognize the limitations of both political ideologies and to see that they are components of a unified and mutually exclusive system of thought characteristic of all armored humans called “mechanistic-mysticism”. These thought systems always function to oppose one another and this is why there can never be any reconcilement between them.
According to functional thinking and contrary to popular belief,the political center is not absolute and static. Depending on social conditions it can shift to the left or right. In today’s anti-authoritarian society the political center has shifted far to the left. Therefore, from a functional perspective, many of those who are on the political right actually belong on the true center in their political thinking and attitudes. This is why they are often capable of making rational sense when it comes to politics.
Functional thinking permits one to step out of the prevailing, narrow mechanistic-mystical worldview. It provides the possibility to have a clear perspective and understanding of the world we live in and of the way certain severely armored individuals are able to bring about the social chaos and destruction,the operation of the emotional plague,that we are currently witnessing.

December 8, 2011
Categories: character structure, emotional plague, Politics, Social Sciences, socio-political character . . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 2 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