General Discussion

That puts you among a heck of a lot of people. What is happening to or country is terrible. Now, this president is not the first politician in this nation's history that has a significant number of the features common to psychopaths/sociopaths/ malignant narcissists. There are lots of them in corporations, too. But what stands out is that this guy is evil, in the psychological sense that Gary Brucato speaks of in his 2019 classic, "The New Evil."

More, he compares with those that Erich Fromm wrote about in his "The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness." There are a few historic examples of what Fromm termed a malignant narcissist leading a nation. When it is a relatively small nation, that leader might be as rabid as was Idi Amin, but they become largely forgotten as the decades role on. It is only in the those in still somewhat crumbling empires that make the short list of the worst ever. More, as Fromm noted, they have what seems a gravitational pull, bringing anti-social personality disorder individuals in around them. These people feel they have license to engage in their most criminal -- often cruel -- fantasies.

Now, we know that all of organic life on this living Earth exists in a mechanical fashion: they either grow or decay. That includes everything from a single cell to a human empire. Now, I am not prone to panic, but from what I have witnessed in life, I'd say this combination of a sociopath in power in a crumbling empire is where we are at. And if we really understand that today is a direct result of yesterday, and tomorrow from today, we see that we cannot stay the same. Nor can we go back in time, for it is always "Now," always has been, always will be.

Yet by changing today, we can change tomorrow. Have you ever watched the movie "Thunderheart"? Where agent Ray Levoi is told by Grandpa to run, run to the safe place? That is the same today ..... go to higher ground. Operate from that very real place within you. And take care of yourself. I just got off the phone with an old associate, and reminded him that even the greatest heavyweight champion ever, Muhammad Ali, took advantage of the minute's rest between rounds. And that young man defeated Uncle Same after a long and difficult struggle.

I know my sanity -- thin as it is! -- depends upon me taking time out in my gardens.