Madness & Civilization

The psychopathologies of today are like the psychopathologies of the death of feudalism and the First Hundred Years' War (or 1A and 1B) with the Scottish Wars wedged in to please Huizinga. The reason of the shift in focus from Scotland was that glory, profit, and status could be gotten more abundantly in France than in Scotland. And the late Middle Ages was clearly a period when the ruling classes thirsted for blood and hungered for glory, profit, and status. Whuffo? To say they wanted to monopolize land strikes many as monocausal and simplistic, but the failure by students of human experience (and the poor slobs' - er historical actors - inadequate interpretations of these experiences) to explain such aberrant manifestations even now is due to the fact that the students themselves are caught up in the processes they want to explain. They lack both the perspective and objectivity to discover sufficient explanations. Now we'uns is living in a similar situation. In both cases, the rationalizations used to justify and explain aggressions, wars, violence, greed, and Pete Hegseth are merely und only explicit rationalized justifications for deeds trying vainly to meet needs that are really rooted in social alienation, emotional frustration, and quiet desperation. Unassuaged, this desperation will go from quiet to raucous.

It is like narcotics that short-circuit the malaise with quick but off-target rewards. Lack love? Buy (or steal) more stuff. Low in spirit? Invade France. Ukraine became the favorite target later, thrice. Even for Boney.

The crowning glory of creation went literally ape-shit. Michael Chance has documented this. The J6 Insurrection is empirical verification.

Scary how our leaders join into the mass hysteria.

(Hmm, the Black Plague was made worse by malnutrition. The depopulation made labor scarce and more valuable, at any rate, albeit drastically. Like using leprosy for weight loss.)