EVERYONE IS CRAZY BUT YOU AND ME AND SOMETIMES I'M NOT SURE OF THEE
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folie a deux (Insanity). The French distinguished mental alienation from
insanity (folie), considering the former in a generic sense, while they used
folie to denote a psychiatric condition acquired by a person who had
previously been in good mental health.
Folie a deux (double insanity). Folie a deux has been known by number
names: communicated insanity, induced insanity, double insanity.
Suggestibility plays a part, among other factors, in the genesis of folie a
deux.when two persons closely associated with one another suffer a psychosis
simultaneously, and when one member of the pair appears to have influenced
the other. The condition is not, of course, necessarily confined to two
persons, and can involve three or even more.
Certainly the witch hunts of the 17th Century is a prime example, as were
the inquisition and the crusades. The communist hunts, heavens gate, the
popularity of the KKK in the 1930s, and Hitler's Germany are all good
examples of communicated insanity. We all (at least those who are as old as
I am) witnessed the rise of the Nazi party that started as a small band of
misfits in the 1920s. This was during the time when Germany's economy was in
shambles - when it took a million Marks to buy a loaf of bread. I am sure
Hitler exploited this time to make promises to the German people.
Since the 1950s, Luce, the publisher of Time magazine, told his editor to
"PUFF" a minor preacher by the name of Billy Graham. This was the beginning
of a new wave of insanity culminating in our present day folie a deux called
"Christian Fundamentalism", (Evangelical) one of the fastest growing
religions in the world. In addition, as you can see, our president, George
Bush, is infecting America with a new rash of insanity. Only historians in
the future will be able to look back at this period in American history to
assess the damage. They may find that this religion has caused a new DARK
AGE.
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