[lbo-talk] Bush's Popularity With Youth (Was: Chomsky: USA "best country....."

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Miles
> 
> Here's an anecdote from the "left coast" (Pacific NW): We were
> discussing anti-social personality disorder in my Psych class,
> and I emphasized that the major symptoms were
> manipulating or hurting others, having no guilt or remorse
> about it, and possessing above average intelligence.
> One student said, "Like Saddam, right?"  I pointed out that
> casual psychological diagnoses of political leaders are often
> dubious; for instance, many people around the world would
> argue that Pres. Bush has the same "disorder".  Without
> missing a beat another student interjected: "Yeah, but
> Bush isn't intelligent".

What I find the most astonishing about this anecdote is that people came
up with media characters rather than examples from their social
environment.  It shows two things: (1) how brainwashed the US population
is, and (2) how prozac-like dull the social life in this country is.

Wojtek