The psychology trap: Why MAGA is bad for America
Sigmund Freud got it all wrong. The real cure for our neuroses doesn't lie in our past -- but in our future!
Here's one of my most favorite quotations: "Neurosis is caused by the
lack of a sense of future." What great psychologist said that? Hardly
any of them -- but it is true nonetheless. Or to put it in layman's
terms, "If we sense danger instead of hope around every corner, then
we're screwed." We are bound to make bad choices based on fear instead
of on logic -- or even on joy.
"Make America Great Again" says it all -- forcing us to follow some
decrepit weed-strewn yellow brick road back into America's dim and
dismal past. That way only leads to neurosis -- and worse. Let's look
to the future instead. America can still have a bright future, honest!
But not one based on our falsely-imagined past -- that sleazy pot-holed
broken-down and morally disheveled road based on genocide, slavery,
poverty, exploitation, oppression, corruption, false "war" myths, false
promises and outright lies.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/30/trumps-coup-in-venezuela-the-full-story/
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/02/22/john-pilger-the-war-on-venezuela-is-built-on-lies/
https://therealnews.com/stories/massive-protest-in-support-of-the-bolivarian-revolution-largely-ignored
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/30/trumps-coup-in-venezuela-the-full-story/
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/02/22/john-pilger-the-war-on-venezuela-is-built-on-lies/
https://therealnews.com/stories/massive-protest-in-support-of-the-bolivarian-revolution-largely-ignored
If Americans ever want to have a shining and hopeful future, then we
need to dump our sleazy past first. Dwelling on robber barons,
climate-change deniers, racism, economic depression, breaking the Sixth
Commandment time after time, sabotaging democracy at every point and keeping our women chained in domestic
slavery? Pretending to be holier-than-thou "Christians" -- ones who know every inch of all those weird
stories in the Bible and yet act like they've never even heard of the Sixth
Commandment, the Golden Rule or anything at all that Jesus preached? Not gonna help. Is really gonna hurt. MAGA gets it totally wrong.
If you are proudly wearing a MAGA hat right now, then perhaps it's time
to consider going to see a psychologist after all. A forward-thinking
psychologist that is. America has been neurotically mired in fake
nostalgia and "false brain messages" for far too long. It's clearly
time to throw off all that debilitating weight of craziness from our
past and strive toward a safe, happy and do-able future for all of us. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/306804/you-are-not-your-brain-by-jeffrey-schwartz/9781583334836/
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