[A-List] Re Bush as 'madman'

["tony black" <tal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Having written...."Not, of course that any of this means much in comparison to the bald fact that Bush is a bona fide war monger / criminal / madman....", I immediately regretted the use of the term 'madman'.

 

Such falls into the category of 'biological deterministic' cultural propaganda which itself has profound political implications...i.e. social Darwinism, and the equating of political criminality (or, indeed, any form of social non-conformity) with psychiatric 'pathology'...All a load of reductionistic claptrap...All designed, not for 'therapeutic' or 'scientific' explanatory ends, but for social control ...

 

The thing is, I should have know better having written extensively on the subject over many years....Just goes to show ya how easy it is to fall prey these little (if highly significant) ideational poison pills..

 

Tony