{"id":65650,"date":"2003-06-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2003\/06\/19\/on-commence-a-parler-de-leur-equilibre-mental\/"},"modified":"2003-06-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-19T00:00:00","slug":"on-commence-a-parler-de-leur-equilibre-mental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2003\/06\/19\/on-commence-a-parler-de-leur-equilibre-mental\/","title":{"rendered":"On commence \u00e0 parler de leur \u00e9quilibre mental<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

On commence \u00e0 parler de leur \u00e9quilibre mental<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\t19 juin 2003 Le fait est que nous ne pourrons pas tout comprendre du comportement de la direction am\u00e9ricaine, de la direction anglo-am\u00e9ricaine dans le cas des WMD irakiennes et du duo Blair-GW, si nous ne nous choisissons pas audacieusement une d\u00e9marche quasiment m\u00e9dicale, concernant la psychologie de cette direction. L’absurdit\u00e9 de certaines affaires expos\u00e9es chaque jour, les contrastes monstrueux entre les discours et les r\u00e9alit\u00e9s, entre les intentions et les actes, l’aspect imperturbable des constats qui continuent \u00e0 \u00eatre faits officiellement alors que la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 hurle le contraire, tout cela nous indique qu’il y a un probl\u00e8me qui d\u00e9passe la politique et l’id\u00e9ologie, et qui se trouve du c\u00f4t\u00e9 du fonctionnement des esprits, du c\u00f4t\u00e9 de la psychologie elle-m\u00eame.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tNous avons, quant \u00e0 nous, commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 proposer l’explication du virtualisme, qui est une manipulation massive de la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 qui, par sa puissance, finit par influer non plus seulement sur les id\u00e9es, mais sur les psychologies qui contribuent \u00e0 former ces id\u00e9es. Il n’y a donc plus une hypoth\u00e8se de tromperie dans le comportement ou une hypoth\u00e8se de stupidit\u00e9 du comportement, il y a l’hypoth\u00e8se d’une quasi-pathologie.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tIl est remarquable qu’on commence \u00e0 trouver des textes envisageant l’exploration de cette hypoth\u00e8se. Nous citons ici un article de Arianne Huffington qui suit cette voie. Il n’est pas question de d\u00e9battre de la validit\u00e9 de l’argument, de la validit\u00e9 de la logique, etc. Il est question d’observer que, devant certaines situations qui sont inexplicables par les voies habituelles de la rationalit\u00e9, on commence \u00e0 envisager l’hypoth\u00e8se de la pathologie. C’est le cas d’Huffington, dans cet article repris par le site TomPaine.com, ce 18 juin<\/a>. Huffington emploie effectivement le mot de pathologie : \u00ab This pathological pattern of disregarding inconvenient reality is not just troubling it’s deadly.<\/em> \u00bb Et l’explication qu’elle donne de sa d\u00e9marche est int\u00e9ressante, d’ailleurs du fait d’abord qu’elle se soit sentie oblig\u00e9e de donner cette explication : \u00ab I know it can sound a bit cheap to call people you disagree with nuts, which is why I refer you to the psychiatric literature.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCi-dessous, le texte de Huffington.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The Psychology Of Fanaticism <\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\tBy Arianna Huffington, TomPaine.com 18 juin 2003<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t By all accounts, the behind-the-scenes battle within the Bush administration over just what information should be used, or spun, or hidden, to make the case that Saddam Hussein posed an imminent threat to America and the rest of the world was a knockdown, drag-out fight between the facts and a zealous, highly politicized, \u00a0\u00bbwho needs proof?\u00a0\u00bb mindset. And, at the end of the day, the truth was left writhing on the floor. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tHey, why let the facts get in the way of a perfectly good war? <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tThis pathological pattern of disregarding inconvenient reality is not just troubling it’s deadly. And it’s threatening to drag us into a Sisyphean struggle against evildoers in Syria, Iran, North Korea, or whatever locale Karl Rove thinks would best advance \u00a0\u00bbOperation Avoid 41’s Fate.\u00a0\u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tSince I’m not a psychiatrist, I consulted the work of various experts in the field in order to get a better understanding of the fanatical mindset that is driving the Bush administration’s agenda and scaring the living daylights out of a growing number of observers. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tDr. Norman Doidge, professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto, has identified among the telltale symptoms of fanatics: an intolerance of dissent, a doctrine that is riddled with contradictions, the belief that one’s cause has been blessed or even commanded by God, and the use of reinforcement techniques such as repetition to spread one’s message. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tSound like anyone you know? George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle… come on down! <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tAccording to Doidge, one of the essential features of fanatics is their certainty that not only is their cause good \u00a0\u00bbbut that it is the only good, an absolute good.\u00a0\u00bb Or as President Bush famously declared: \u00a0\u00bbThere is no in-between, as far as I’m concerned. Either you’re with us, or you’re against us.\u00a0\u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tThis absolute intolerance of dissent, says Doidge, often extends beyond the fanatics’ enemies frequently leading to a \u00a0\u00bbcampaign of terror\u00a0\u00bb against those within their own ranks. If you’re wondering what this has to do with the Bush administration, you might want to give a call to Republican Sens. Olympia Snowe and George Voinovich. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tAfter having the temerity to question the wisdom of the president’s massive tax cut plan, the senatorial pair became the targets of withering TV attack ads, sponsored by allies of the White House, that portrayed them as \u00a0\u00bbso-called Republicans\u00a0\u00bb and compared their opposition to the latest round of tax cuts to France’s opposition to the war in Iraq. It was a Night of the Long Knives, GOP-style. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tAnother crucial element of a fanatic’s faith, according to Professor Dixon Sutherland, who teaches religion at Stetson University, is that he \u00a0\u00bbsees himself as acting for God…. You have a circular logic that is very powerful that combines God’s authority through the Bible with a messenger who carries out that authority.\u00a0\u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tTom DeLay, for example, saw the 2000 election as a choice between a \u00a0\u00bbbiblical worldview\u00a0\u00bb and the worldview of \u00a0\u00bbhumanism, materialism, sexism, naturalism, post-modernism or any of the other -isms.\u00a0\u00bb And the Republican Party, of course, represented the biblical worldview, God and all things good. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tGustav le Bon, a social scientist known for his crowd psychology theories, has stressed the importance of repetition as a weapon in the fanatic’s arsenal. Repetition breeds blind acceptance and contagion. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00a0\u00bbIdeas, sentiments, emotions and beliefs,\u00a0\u00bb writes le Bon, \u00a0\u00bbpossess in crowds a contagious power as intense as that of microbes.\u00a0\u00bb As James Moore, co-author of Bush’s Brain, says, \u00a0\u00bbIf the president says it over and over enough, people will believe it, just as Karl Rove got him to say over and over that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9\/11.\u00a0\u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tThe technique was so successful that a poll taken by the Pew Center in 2002 showed that 66 percent of Americans believed that Hussein and bin Laden were both behind the attacks. In the words of that giant banner that Rove had placed behind the president following his Top Gun landing on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln: \u00a0\u00bbMission Accomplished.\u00a0\u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tWonder why the WMD are MIA? The answer may lie in the DSM the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. I know it can sound a bit cheap to call people you disagree with nuts, which is why I refer you to the psychiatric literature. And keep an open mind, something the Bushies stopped doing a long time ago.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tArianna Huffington is a syndicated columnist and author of Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption are Undermining America.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t[Notre recommendation est que ce texte doit \u00eatre lu avec la mention classique \u00e0 l’esprit, Disclaimer: In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only..]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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