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Is it insane to notice that virtually
our entire leadership is insane?
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by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News
August 2, 2007
Why do I confidently assert the seemingly outrageous proposition
that, at least at
any level of significance, our entire leadership
is insane? Because I have
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consistently observed what seems to be a
law of social interaction. Insane
leadership, once it becomes
dominant in any system, drives out sane leadership.
As an isolated
phenomenon this leads to the collapse of the infected institution,
such as a company, school, religious group, etc., and is a self-limited problem. When the infection spreads outside of isolated
institutions, as it has in the U.S., the contagion can no longer be
contained and becomes a pandemic of insane leadership.
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An oft-used
example of this process is what occurred in Germany between the World
Wars. Another is the Apartheid regime of South Africa. If one
asserts that there is evidence that there are some sane leaders left
under these conditions, the logic of my argument, and the lessons of
history, suggest that they must be very few and, in any case, these
few sane leaders will soon to be out of power.
Consequently I have problems
with every well meaning person who calls for reform of our
institutions. If, as I assert, the insane leadership is now
dominant, then it is logically impossible that reform can work. This
is because there is no reserve of sane leadership, once insane
leadership becomes dominant and has succeeded in eliminating any sane
competition. Once insane leadership succeeds in taking over, there is
no longer any source of sane leadership available to effect "reform
from within".
So we don't need new, better leaders. Rather, we need a brand new way of selecting leaders, a system that operates
entirely independent of all our current governmental, military,
educational, legal, medical and religious institutions, all of which
have been corrupted by our currently insane leadership and are
incapable of doing anything but reproducing more insanity. These
diseased institutions need to be replaced entirely.
Our institutional structures are like a house
completely consumed by termites. On casual observation the house
seems sound but it will soon collapse unless radical rebuilding is
undertaken. We need to listen to the honest contractor who tells the homeowner that the
house needs to be gutted and rebuilt, not to the dishonest or incompetent
contractor who says that only a little needs to be done, some cosmetic
repairs effected.
We have models of how a radical redesign could work. The jury system, when it is
allowed to work without the insane interventions of our current legal
system, is a reliable way to inject sanity into the very insanity
prone venue of the courtroom. Hell, as harebrained as it may sound,
simply replacing our current leadership with randomly chosen
individuals would work to halt this pandemic of insane leadership.
There are lots of ways that one could think of to empower an entirely
new leadership. What seems abundantly clear to me, however, is that
if we fail to meet this challenge we are certain to experience
obliteration at the hands of our currently insane leaders. We have a
choice to act decisively, or to simply fail to act and await our fate.
If the current insane leadership of the U.S. is allowed to continue
along its current course, we will not only be sealing our own fates,
but also the fate of the entire world. An insane cabal armed with
10,000 nuclear weapons will most likely destroy the world.
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And of course, I would
very much like to be wrong about this. Maybe the cavalry will come
charging over the hill and save our hides. Maybe the rest of the
world will figure out some way to combat the insanity of the
leadership that has taken root in America.
There is the example of South
Africa, where concerted world action allowed that country to divest
itself of its insane apartheid regime. There is the example of the
destruction of the insane leadership of Cambodia by the Vietnamese
Army.
But frankly, such wishful thinking is unlikely to do the job
in our case. It is, unfair as it may seem, the responsibility of
ordinary, reasonably sane people in the U.S. to replace our dominant
institutions and save ourselves and, by so doing, save the world.
So, in that famous can-do spirit, let's get to it.
© by the author.
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If the current insane leadership of the U.S. is allowed to continue along its current course, we will not only be sealing our own fates, but also the fate of the entire world.
An insane cabal armed with 10,000 nuclear weapons will most likely destroy the world.
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Dr. Herb Ruhs & grandson
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