Likewise, the American Psychiatric Association's
Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM) has served a
similar function in the marginalizing and, on
occasion, incarceration of potential innovators.
Now printed in four editions, the DSM is "the
billing bible for mental disorders which
commingles neurological diseases with psychiatric
diagnoses" (O Meara, no pagination). While The
Malleus Maleficarum stigmatized certain
modes of thought and behavior as
"witchcraft," the DSM stigmatizes them
as "disorders." In an interview with OMNI
magazine, R.D. Laing expands on the role of the
DSM in marginalizing divergent paradigms:
In the later sixties it became apparent to
the elite with the responsibilities for
"control of the population" that the
old idea of putting people in the proverbial bin
and keeping them there for life - warehousing
people - wasn't cost-effective. The Reagan
administration in California was one of the
first to realize this. So they had to rethink
just what is said to the general public and what
is practiced by the executive in control of
mental health. The same problem prevails across
Europe and the Third World.
To see what is happening, look at the
textbook or manual called DSM-III: The
Diagnostic Statistical Manual on Mental
Disorders. Translated into economic and
political terms, mental disorder means undesired
mental states and behavior. The criteria for
mental disorder in DSM-III include any unusual
perceptual experience, magical thinking,
clairvoyance, telepathy, sixth sense, sense of a
person not actually present. You're allowed to
sense the presence of a dead relative for three
weeks after their death. After that it becomes a
criterion of mental disorder to have those
feelings.
. . . these are not exceptional examples out
of DSM-III. The overall drift is what
contemporary modern psychiatry, epitomized by
this DSM manual translated into eighteen
languages, is imposing all over the world - a
mandate to strip anyone of their civil
liberties, of habeas corpus; and to apply
involuntary incarceration, chemicalisation of a
person, electric shocks, and non-injurious
torture; to homogenize people who are out of
line. Presented as a medical operation, it is an
undercover. (Liversidge 60-61)
Under the pretext of promoting mental health,
the DSM has been instrumental in the stifling of
cognitive dissent. Not only is the DSM analogous
to The Malleus Maleficarum, but the
respective historical periods of the two texts are
analogous as well. Just as the dominant
ecclesiastical establishment that promulgated The
Malleus Maleficarum was premised on a form
of mysticism, namely spiritualism, so is the
contemporary religio-cultural milieu that adheres
to the DSM. The new mysticism, however, is
materialism. Daniel Pouzzner explains how
materialism qualifies as a form of mysticism:
“The materialist is the mystic who believes
in existence without consciousness, and preaches
subordination to a vague and unaccountable
'Society' variously called 'public interest,'
'the people,' 'world opinion,' 'the common
good,' etc. (Pouzzner, no pagination)”
This form of mysticism was introduced to the
field of psychology by Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt.
When examined closer, the imposition of this
metaphysical doctrine upon psychology is most
paradoxical. Psychology is derived from the word
psyche, which meant "soul" in the
original Greek. Ironically, however, Wundt would
expunge the soul from the halls of psychological
research and enshrine the primacy of matter.
Appropriately, this metaphysical doctrine would
underpin both communism and fascism. It also
underpins the emergent police state of today.
Understood from this vantage point, the DSM can
be seen as merely the modern incarnation of The
Malleus Maleficarum. Just as the theocracy
of 1486 employed The Malleus Maleficarum
against religious "heretics" of the
middle ages, the DSM is employed by the dominant
theocracy of materialism against cognitive
dissenters today.
The War on Innovators
Who are the new "heretics" against
whom the DSM is employed? In The
Architecture of Modern Political Power,
researcher Daniel Pouzzner presents an interesting
assertion. Pouzzner contends that one of the power
elite's greatest fears is chaos, more specifically
the sort of chaos generated by innovation:
Fear of chaos is not unique to the power
brokers. It is much more common than that. It
is, in short, an important example of fear of
the unknown - in practical terms, it is fear of
the unknowable. This fear is a classic
characteristic of small minds and of those of
meager confidence. It is often observed that
investors tend to hate uncertainty: today,
roughly half of the value of US stock markets is
held by individual investors, and 45 percent of
American households own stock directly or
indirectly. Chaos of the type introduced by
innovators produces very serious uncertainty for
these investors, and they hate it. Thus, because
of fear and short-term interest, the bulk of
mainstream first-worlders, being small-minded,
tacitly supports the neutralization, or even
extermination, of uncooperative innovators. In
fact, the ordinary feel offended and disgraced
by these innovators, and for that the innovators
are resented like no other group. The
small-minded must become larger-minded if they
are to realize that they, too, are slated for
enslavement and capricious extermination -
except that they have, as a rule, already
resigned themselves to obedient slavery in
exchange for survival. The power brokers are the
total enemies of the innovators and the masses
alike, but the masses cower and bow, signalling
their surrender. (Pouzzner, no pagination)
Because innovation abruptly reconfigures the
socioeconomic playing field, the inventive
personality is one of the greatest threats to the
power of the ruling class. Innovators can
potentially destabilize the elite's inequitable
system of control and re-establish meritocracy.
Innovators can introduce genuine competition to
the marketplace, thus exposing the oligarchs'
illusion of counterfeit capitalism and
facilitating the emergence of a truly free
enterprise system. As practitioners of usury, the
parasitic ruling class cannot allow this to
happen. The abatement of just such a shift in the
power balance is precisely the function for which
the DSM was designed. Pouzzner explains:
The cultural prejudice against chaos is
evident in contemporary language itself.
Diseases of the mind are routinely referred to
as ``disorders,'' whether or not they present
themselves as, or are caused by, an imbalanced
abundance of randomness. Dissociative Identity
Disorder (DID), historically known as Multiple
Personality Disorder (MPD), is not a disorder at
all, but is in fact an additional level of
ordered mental arrangement. In fact, most DSM-IV
(American Psychiatric Association standard)
mental illness involves minds and brains that
are more ordered than healthy minds and brains.
Chaos is healthy, and empowers consciousness.
Order is morbid. An unusually regular and
orderly electrocardiogram (EKG) is an indication
of nascent illness; certain elements of chaos in
heart rhythms are indications of good health.
Another term that propels the prejudice is
``unstable,'' often used as a synonym for
``insane.'' This use of that term must be
condemned with equal haste. As Ilya Prigogine
(Nobel laureate and Clubber of Rome) observes,
"over time, non-equilibrium processes
generate complex structures that cannot be
achieved in an equilibrium situation."
(Pouzzner, no pagination)
The DSM is integral to civil commitment, one of
the elite's legal instruments for the
criminalizing of potential innovators. Pouzzner
elaborates:
A more established institution in the same
vein is civil commitment, which operates like
civil forfeiture, with a reduced burden of
proof, only the object seized by the state is an
actual living human individual. Civil commitment
is an extraconstitutional mechanism by which
private citizens licensed by a committee of
executive appointees cause the forcible
imprisonment of individuals charged with no
crime, with subsequent judicial review based
principally on standards promulgated by the
private American Psychiatric Association in its
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders (the "DSM"). (Pouzzner, no
pagination)
In short, all those who deviate from the
Establishment's arbitrary criteria for mental
health are incarcerated and assigned one of the
APA's various stigmas… "unstable,"
"disturbed," or just plain
"criminally insane." Typically, the
recipients of such stigmas are the innovators who
threaten the oligarchs' dominance. Worse still,
the elasticity of such stigmas is increasing.
According to Larry Akey, spokesman for the Health
Insurance Association of America, "New mental
illnesses are being included in DSM 4 all the
time" (Porteus, no pagination). For every
potential innovator, there is now a potential
mental illness.
Observing the growing elasticity of qualifiers
for mental illness, Kelly Patricia O Meara states:
A child who doesn't like doing math homework
may be diagnosed with the mental illness
developmental-arithmetic disorder (No.315.4). A
child who argues with her parents may be
diagnosed as having a mental illness called
oppositional-defiant disorder (No.313.8). And
people critical of the legislation now snaking
through Congress that purports to "end
discrimination against patients seeking
treatment for mental illness" may find
themselves labeled as being in denial and
diagnosed with the mental illness called
noncompliance-with-treatment disorder (No.15.81)
The psychiatric diagnoses suggested above are
no joke. They represent a few of the more than
350 "mental disorders" listed in the
American Psychiatric Association's (APA)
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders (DSM-IV), the billing bible for mental
disorders which commingles neurological diseases
with psychiatric diagnoses. (O Meara, no
pagination)
The list of so-called "mental
disorders" continues to grow. Of course, if a
divergent mode of thought or behavior does not
find a corresponding "mental disorder"
in the current DSM, the social engineers are
always willing to invent a new one. Such is the
case with the purported "mental
disorder" of Attention Deficit Disorder.
Already, this chimerical illness is drawing some
healthy skeptical criticism. Kelly Patricia O
Meara elaborates:
Fred Baughman, a San Diego neurologist and
leading critic of the alleged mental illness
called attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD), tells Insight the question that must be
answered before a mental illness can qualify as
a disease is this: "Where is the
macroscopic, microscopic or chemical abnormality
in any living patient or at death/autopsy?"
(O Meara, no pagination)
Does ADHD even exist? The absence of any
"macroscopic, microscopic or chemical
abnormality in any patient" certainly drives
one more nail into the coffin of this alleged
"mental disorder." Yet, the imaginary
illness remains part of the litany of stigmas and
more await invention. Worse still, the standards
for establishing mental illness have plunged into
ambiguity. Baughman reiterates:
"No one is justified in saying anyone is
medically abnormal/diseased until such time as
they can adduce some such abnormality. This, by
the way, would apply to a person suspected of
having diabetes or cancer." The fact is,
Baughman adds, "There is no psychiatric
diagnosis for which any part of this question
can be answered in the affirmative. In other
words: no abnormality; no disease. There is no
confirmation of abnormality in the brain in life
or at autopsy for any of the psychiatric
diagnoses. And they [in the psychiatric
community] don't say this because it's part of
the propaganda campaign to make patients out of
normal people. The findings at autopsy would be
very specific and would reveal whether it is a
diseased brain and, if so, which disease it is.
There is no proof in life or at autopsy of any
of the alleged psychiatric mental illnesses,
including schizophrenia, psychosis, depression,
OCD or ADHD." (O Meara, no pagination)
For every independent thinker, there is a
corresponding "mental disorder." If one
does not currently exist, social engineers of the
Establishment can always concoct one. Daniel
Pouzzner provides an eloquent summation:
The power brokers work to eradicate chaos
both because of their own fear of it, and
because they seek to eradicate the innovation it
leads to (and the chaos which leads from
innovation), insofar as that innovation and
chaos directly threatens their hegemony.
(Pouzzner, no pagination)
Beware, innovators. In the eyes of the
Establishment, you are the agents of chaos and war
has been declared on you.
Disorder Out of Chaos
To be sure, the oligarchs have employed chaos
themselves. However, as Pouzzner makes clear,
their brand of chaos is "treated"
(Pouzzner, 2001). It is not the healthy chaos
arising from innovation, but destructive chaos
resulting from the instigation of conflict. This
brand of chaos is evident in the Hegelian
dialectic, Huntington's Clash
of Civilizations thesis, the geostrategy
presented by Brzezinski in The
Grand Chessboard, and the Masonic dictum: Ordo
Ab Chao. The counterfeit form of chaos
generated by these theoretical methodologies is
intended to stifle the inventive proclivities of
humanity and maintain the elite's desired order.
Paradoxically, the maintenance of such an order is
self-immolating. Pouzzner explains:
The establishment instinctually seeks to
bring about a circumstance in which all movement
in the structure of societies, economies,
sciences, technologies, and arts, is arrested.
This, however, is nothing but Thanatos expanded
to the whole of the world. It is the
establishment's instinctual desire for death -
for extinction. (Pouzzner, no pagination)
Indeed, the Establishment itself is clinically
suicidal. Its members seem to be experiencing a
collective nervous breakdown, the culmination of
which could be a violent death by their own hands.
A microcosm of this collective nervous breakdown
can be found in President George W. Bush. In an
article entitled "Is Bush Nuts?,"
William Thomas writes:
"Is The 'President' Nuts?" asks
Carol Wolman, M.D. "Many people, inside and
especially outside this country, believe that
the American president is nuts, and is taking
the world on a suicidal path." A
board-certified psychiatrist in practice for 30
years, Dr. Wolman feels compelled to understand
the "psychopathology" of man
"under tremendous pressure from both his
family/junta, and from the world at large."
(Thomas, no pagination)
Ironically, Bush Junior's stability is called
into question by the very same criteria presented
in the mental health establishment's own DSM:
Dr. Wolman wonders if GW is suffering from
Antisocial Personality Disorder, as described in
the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Fourth
Edition: "There is a pervasive pattern of
disregard for and violation of the rights of
others: 1) failure to conform to social norms
with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by
repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for
arrest; 2) deceitfulness, as indicated by
repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning
others for personal profit or pleasure; 5)
reckless disregard for safety of self or others;
7) lack of remorse by being indifferent to or
rationalizing having hurt, mistreated or stolen
from others." (Thomas, no pagination)
Dr. Carolyn Williams, a registered Republican
and psychoanalyst specializing in paranoid
personalities, provides the following assessment
of the President:
"President Bush grew up dealing with an
absent but demanding father, a tough mother and
an overachieving brother. All left indelible
impressions on him along with a desire to prove
himself at all cost because he feels surrounded
by disapproval. His behavior suggests a classic
paranoid personality. Additionally, his stated
belief that certain actions are 'God's Will' are
symptomatic of delusional behavior."
(Hampton, no pagination)
Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill has also
expressed concerns about Bush Junior's mental and
emotional condition:
O'Neill says Bush was moody in cabinet
meetings and would wander off on tangents,
mostly about Saddam Hussein and Iraq. Bush,
O'Neill says, seemed more focused on Iraq than
on finding Osama bin Laden and would lash out at
anyone who disagreed with him. (Hampton, no
pagination)
As is the case with Bush Junior, several
individuals within the Bush Administration also
qualify as "mentally ill" according to
the DSM itself. The President has developed a
dangerous dependency upon this sect of mutually
unstable individuals. Thus, the patients are now
running the asylum. William explains:
According to the Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual, a person suffering from Narcissistic
Personality Disorder, "Has a grandiose
sense of self-importance-exaggerates
achievements and talents, expects to be
recognized as superior without commensurate
achievements."
Sound familiar?
This personality is preoccupied with
fantasies of power and being loved. Such a
person requires "automatic
compliance". He or she is
"exploitative" of others, "lacks
empathy, is unwilling to recognize or identify
with the feelings and needs of others." And
also "shows arrogant, haughty behavior or
attitudes."
"This set of characteristics," says
Dr. Wolman, not too reassuringly, "may
describe Rumsfeld and Cheney better than
Dubya."
For those who, like Nobel Prize winner Joseph
Stieglitz, warn that Bush "has been
captured by a small group of ideologues,”
Dependent Personality Disorder describes someone
who "has difficulty making everyday
decisions without an excessive amount of advice
and reassurance from others." (Thomas, no
pagination)
This collection of mentally ill people is
guiding an equally unstable President down a
course towards self-immolation. Fettered to the
policies of this insane Administration, the nation
is being forcibly pulled along with the madmen
into an abyss. Indeed, the Establishment is
clinically suicidal. At their nadir, the elite's
policies constitute "Thanatos expanded to the
whole of the world."
Some researchers have proposed that the witch
hunts of the Middle Ages, the guidelines of which
were established in The Malleus Maleficarum,
was actually a smoke screen designed to draw
attention away from genuine cases of witchcraft
within the church and aristocracy. Likewise, the contemporary
witch hunts for "mental disorders,"
which finds its guidelines within the Diagnostic
Statistical Manual, could be a smoke screen
designed to draw attention away from genuine cases
of mental illness in the Establishment.
Sources Cited
- Hampton, Teresa, "
New Information Suggests Bush Indecisive,
Paranoid, Delusional," June 17, 2004.
- Liversidge, Anthony, "Interview with
R.D. Laing," OMNI Magazine,
1988.
- O Meara, Kelly Patricia, "Money
and Madness," Insight on the News,
June 3, 2002.
- Porteus, Liza, "Status
of Mental Health Rises in Senate," Fox
News, November 14, 2002.
- Pouzzner, Daniel, The
Architecture of Modern Political Power,
2001.
- Thomas, William, "Is
Bush Nuts?," 2004.
About the Authors
Paul D. Collins has studied
suppressed history and the shadowy undercurrents
of world political dynamics for roughly eleven
years. In 1999, he completed his Associate of Arts
and Science degree. He is working to complete his
Bachelor's degree, with a major in Communications
and a minor in Political Science. Paul has
authored another book entitled The Hidden
Face of Terrorism: The Dark Side of Social
Engineering, From Antiquity to September 11.
Published in November 2002, the book is available
online from amazon.com.
It can be purchased as an e-book (ISBN
1-4033-6798-1) or in paperback format (ISBN
1-4033-6799-X).
Phillip D. Collins acted as
the editor for The Hidden Face of Terrorism.
He has also written articles for Paranoia
Magazine, MKzine, News With Views, B.I.P.E.D.: The
Official Website of Darwinian Dissent and
Conspiracy Archive. He has an Associate of Arts
and Science. Currently, he is studying for a
bachelor's degree in Communications at Wright
State University. During the course of his
seven-year college career, Phillip has studied
philosophy, religion, and classic literature. He
also co-authored the book, The Ascendancy of
the Scientific Dictatorship: An Examination of
Epistemic Autocracy, From the 19th to the 21st
Century, which is available online from amazon.com.
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