It’s always satisfying to have a pet theory supported by new data. A large and authoritative study, just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, confirms a favorite hypothesis of mine, that there is more mental illness and insanity far more in America than you find in other advanced societies.
The study, led by a Harvard Medical School researcher, found evidence of mental problems in 26.4% of people in the US, versus, for example’ 8.2% ‘of people in Italy. The researchers were concerned with matters such as lack of access to treatment and under-treatment, but ” for those concerned about a safe and decent world I think the salient finding is simply America’s high percentage.
Alas. The world is being led by a nation where more than one-quarter of the people have genuine mental problems.
The finding is strangely both comforting and disturbing. T 2 is comforting because it helps explain why Americans continue supporting a man proven wrong every time, he opens his -mouth, a man who the world has de-stabilized parts of in ‘the name of creating stability, a man claiming sound business principles who has pitched the US into deficit free- fall and a man who arouses suspicion and throughout the world.
Studying is comforting, too, because it helps explain an opposition candidate like John Kerry.
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How can liberals: generate excitement over this stale, fly-buzzed doughnut of a candidate? I suppose the same way they get excited every time Bush’s polls dip by something little more than statistical ‘noise.
Which is the world’s biggest mad house? No marks for guessing it. It is of course the USA. This finding is based on a study conducted by the Harvard Medical school and published in the Journal of American Medical Association recently. More than 1 out of every 4 people in the USA has a mental case. How else do you explain a person as dumb, as venal, as unfeeling as George W (ar criminal) Bush getting elected as the President of USA? (Purists would say that he didn’t get elected but stole the election).
I explain American insanity by a gene pool fouled with the heavy early migration of Puritans., mentally disturbed fanatics 1f we accept the rather detailed historical record in Europe, plus the immense stresses of a society run along strict principles of Social Darwinism. An almost unqualified admiration for greed now dominates American culture.
My criticism of the US is not concerned with how it wishes to order its own society but about how its activities spill over into the rest of the world. Iraq provides textbook example. The effect of the invasion of Iraq is a badly destablized country, now full of people who resent Americans for their brutality and arrogance where once there were undoubtedly many who dreamily admired America at a distance. Saudi Arabia also has been destabilized as many warned Bush that it would be before he set his crusaders marching.
Many old friends and allies, like France or Canada, have been stupidly abused for offering sound advice and declining to join the march to hell. Tony Blair’s pathetic rag of a government hangs by threads after working against the clear wishes of the British people and Blair has found the voice, he thought he had earned in the councils of war arrogantly dismissed by Bush and his fanatics.
Israel’s state-terror in the West Bank and Gaza, cheerily accepted by Bush (and Kerry) has risen to nightmarish levels and if you think that has no connection with all the hatred for America.
While I am glad for the confirmation of my hypothesis, I can’t help feeling as with so many studies this one does little more than confirm the painfully obvious.
