Not sure if this has been posted. It is a psychoanalysis of the current u.s. president.
bush and the psychology of bad decisions
It is terrifying that this guy has at least 2 years to go in office...
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The most dangerous person in the world...
by TITAN » Tue 23 Jan 2007, 21:36:40
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Re: The most dangerous person in the world...
by napoleon » Tue 23 Jan 2007, 22:20:01
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he president's swirling dynamic lies "hidden in plain sight" in his personal history. From the time he was a boy until his religious awakening in his early 40s, Bush had every reason to feel he was a failure.
Yet, he made it as president.
I smell some jealousy here.
Maybe the writer of the article feel He or SHE is a failure for not making it as president.
What a little loser that writer must be.
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Re: The most dangerous person in the world...
by Zardoz » Wed 24 Jan 2007, 02:09:47
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('napoleon', 'W')hat a little loser that writer must be.
Au contraire.
Every word of that essay makes perfect sense. The writers have concisely summarized what all of us have been instinctively feeling.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')s his decisions go awry, he exudes a troubling, uncanny aura of certitude (though some find it reassuring). He seems to expect to feel despised and alone (and probably has always felt that), as he has always secretly expected to fail. That expectation of failure leads to sloppy, risky, incompetent decisions, which in turn compel him to swerve from his fears of incompetence.
At this point, the president seems to have entered a place in his psyche where he is discounting all external criticism and unpopularity, and fixing stubbornly on his illusion of vindication, because he's still "The Decider," who can just keep deciding until he gets to success. It's hard not to feel something heroic in this position - but it's a recipe for bad, if not catastrophic, decisions.
"Terrifying" is the word for it, Titan. This guy is way more dangerous than any of us know.
The authors are probably right about him not being the puppet we think he is. Perhaps Cheney has far less power than we thought:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t's likely that speculations about Vice President Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice functioning as Bush's puppet-masters are 180 (or at least 160) degrees off. Bush is the president; he gets his way, and they know it. Chances are they have learned to channel his "gut" and give him policy advice that matches it. They may even imagine they are steering him, not clear about the ways that he has bullied them, elicited in them "The Stockholm Syndrome," in which hostages come to identify with and even defend the very person who is threatening them. This is the same dynamic evident in the behavior of battered spouses and members of gangs.
This might explain Colin Powell, as well.
Truly a fascinating piece.
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