In a recent online conversation with several U.S. based psychiatrists and colleagues in Europe and Asia, the question was raised: “Is it Brainwashing?”
“America doesn’t have a mental health crisis. America is a mental illness, by which I mean it is suffering and a cause of suffering, ” said Psychiatrist Dr. Ravi Chandra in a lecture on 2 October, 2023 entitled “Treating America’s Number One Addiction: Abusive Power.
“I think America’s primary illness is addiction to power and wealth, which become an addiction to cruelty, and avoidance and subordination of compassion, empathy, and shared humanity.
“The addiction is seen in the ways its citizens feel frustration at the supposed others who are trying to “take power away” from them. We see what happens when someone gets between the power addict and their fix – for example, when those who are diverse and more comfortable with diversity start showing up. The power addict blames immigrants, migrants, BIPOC peoples and sexual and gender minorities for daring to be seen and having “intolerable” voices and identities, for having human needs, just like them.
“We see the effects of the addiction in the futility and exhaustion experienced on the regular by anyone trying to supply what’s really needed – love, compassion, reason, justice, equity. We see the addiction to abusive power in the epidemic of gun violence and rising levels of gun ownership. When in doubt, when fearful – far too many Americans say “Buy a gun!” We see the addiction in the emotional burdens of women in a society geared for male dominance and authority, and in the violence visited on women by abusive men or men who can’t control their own distresses. “When you can’t control your own distress, you seek to control others.” This happens regardless of gender,” said Dr. Ravi Chandra.
The unforgivable slaughter of women & children in Gaza is on Harris & Biden. Vote them out? How can women vote for a woman who is complicit in the slaughter of tens of thousands of women and children? Art: Rosa Yamamoto / Feminine-Perspective-Magazine
Does brainwashing lead to Cognitive Failure? Most experts agree the answer is “Yes”.
Professionals in the medical field have observed a phenomenon of Cognitive Failure that breeds a ‘triggered megalomania’ (epidemic delivered by main media cooperating with Democrat Party?).
How else could so many millions of Americans support genocide? Yes, Americans have done this before and are now doing it again at home.
“Slaughtering tens of thousands of women and children does not seem natural for a ‘Women’s March‘ nor does supporting a political candidate because she is on the “Democrat Ticket” and Democrats favour abortion at any time in the fetus’s / infant’s life as a form of birth control,” says Katie Alsop of The RINJ Foundation, a global civil society organization fighting for the rights and safety of women around the world.
“The present research explores the roles of distinct types of motives in politically motivated thinking and identifies the conditions under which motivated reasoners are persuaded by political messages.” Citing paper: When and How Different Motives Can Drive Motivated Political Reasoning | ResearchGate
The unforgivable slaughter of women & children in Gaza is on Harris & Biden.
Vote them out say millions of women around the world. This is an artwork by Rosa Yamamoto whose actual photographs from Gaza are too gruesome to publish here, now.
Is there a potential connection between people who suffer fierce politically induced brainwashing (i.e.: red team vs blue team) — and grandiosity that both causes a wholesale cognitive failure and simultaneously triggers ‘megalomania’ for lack of a better word?
“This phenomenon has been seen where American patients are ignoring their unhealthy behaviour like violence used to solve even minor problems, substance abuse, and overeating, then suffering the ill effects because they have this irrational self-view of omnipotence, a trait of their induced cognitive failure and ‘megalomania’ for lack of a better definition.” citing author in Doximity.
“Many U.S. patients today have taken their unhealthy trends to limits that go beyond the ability of gastric surgery tables to withstand their weight. I mean to throw that out there not as a typical crisis but to illustrate the extent to which this syndrome has become prevalent in modern American health care scenarios, I really do believe that it’s this complicated and that far too many follies of society are inducing an incipient health failure phenomenon,” citing author in Doximity.
Then, to top it all off, perhaps, this manic grandiosity causes them to ignore the fact they should be seeking and committing to long-term professional help starting with their physician and then on referral, perhaps psychiatric or psychological (cognitive therapy?) specialist care. Patients who present today with, dare I say, what look like self-harming trends, may not be anything but brainwashed (cognitively failed) megalomaniacs themselves.
How else can one explain the American population supporting and paying for a genocide.
In an extraordinary opinion piece mid-October in the Guardian, Mehdi Hasan wrote the following observations about a country that has murdered over 230 United Nations Humanitarians over the past year. Mehdi Hasan is a broadcaster and author, and a former host on MSNBC. He is also a Guardian U.S. columnist and the editor-in-chief of Zeteo, a new media organization where independent and unfiltered journalism is making a comeback.
“Israel’s prime minister, while standing on stage at the UN general assembly, denounced the body as “contemptible”, a “house of darkness” and a “swamp of antisemitic bile” is Mehdi Hasan’s take.
“Israel’s outgoing ambassador to the UN shredded a copy of the UN charter with a miniature paper shredder while also standing at the podium of the general assembly, and later said the UN headquarters in New York “should be closed and wiped off the face of the Earth”.
“Israel’s foreign minister falsely accused the UN secretary general of not having condemned Iran’s attacks on Israel, declared him “persona non grata in Israel” and announced that he had “banned him from entering the country”.
“The Israeli government actively obstructed a UN-mandated commission of inquiry trying to collect evidence on the 7 October attacks.
“Israel’s parliament is in the process of designating a longstanding UN agency, Unrwa, as a ‘terrorist organization’.
“The Israeli military has bombed UN schools, warehouses and refugee camps in Gaza for 12 consecutive months, and killed a record 228 UN employees in the process. “By far the highest number of our personnel killed in a single conflict or natural disaster since the creation of the United Nations,” to quote the UN secretary general.
“The Israeli military is now also attacking UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon. According to the UN, “five UN ‘Blue Helmets’ serving with UNIFIL in Lebanon have been injured as Israeli forces inflicted damage on UN positions close to the ‘Blue Line’.”
“How is any of this OK? Acceptable? Legal?”
‘It Is Important to Call a Genocide a Genocide,’ Consider Suspending Israel’s Credential as UN Member State, Experts Tell Palestinian Rights Committee
UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, has called for UN member states to consider suspending Israel over the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and its decades-long illegal occupation of Palestinian land.