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elena
...In a fugue state, a trauma creates a kind of amnesia in which the sufferer is incapable of connecting to his past. The impairment of judgment comes in great part from a denial of distress.
It's that look in their eyes. Our PM, your President's lapdog, has that same faraway look on his face when asked to explain his last hypocrisy, his last blunder - to give some response to one of his many oversights. I think we have to accept that politician doesn't automatically connote honesty or intelligence or common sense. I just hope that this 'governance of people' we call politics would hurry up and sort itself out. I mean, sometimes it seems like we're going in circles and despotism is the shadow on the wall, again. (Should I get my sword and chainmail out for a dusting?)
And if any of this makes sense, this denial of distress is exactly the symptom LGATs like LE and CO$ prey upon. It's kind of funny in a very sad way how our politicians sometimes reveal our culture's worst characteristics and qualities.
Are we so much in a hurry to kill the pain - all the pain?
I suppose, on some level, we've always been a species looking for a quick fix, some snake oil and a good ol' brainwashing.
We just have to walk on.