Posted on 11/20/2010 10:08:07 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Edited on 11/20/2010 10:13:25 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
When I awoke two years ago in Fairbanks and heard that John McCain had chosen Sarah Palin as a vice presidential candidate, I felt I had woken up in a never-ending dream, an improbable parallel reality.
Apparently this dreamlike improbable parallel reality has now continued for more than two years. So I tell myself, "I am a psychologist. I work with dreams. If I am ever to wake up out of this dream, I clearly have to figure out, 'What part of my psyche does Sarah Palin represent?'"
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A: Only one, but the light bulb has to want to change.
Still... I liked his conclusion!
“I would have voted for Hillary [because she’s a woman]”
Disqualified from further reading.
“Yeah, that must be some of it; I want the woman-within-me to have more power.”
Yeah, thanks. Dr. Phil?
On January 13, 2012, I hope he wakes up to his nightmare of President Palin.
With some exceptions, people don't believe in witchcraft today and that puts the liberals at a distinct disadvantage. Unable to level a charge of witchcraft on Palin, they try various remarks designed to diminish our perception of her intellect and popularity. This is very frustrating to the left and stokes the intensity of their disdain. To the advantage of conservatives, this makes them appear petty and foolish. The emotions that Palin engenders in liberals always works to our advantage. Keep it up, you leftists! We will bury you.
This guy’s a pinhead.
I agree, he worked through his fantasies to reach a reasonable conclusion.
Self-diagnosis.
“What part of my psyche does Sarah Palin represent?”
Considering on any given day, historically almost any governor is more qualified than any Senator to be President; Palin is both competent and qualified as Governor able to undertake the job! Can we say the same of the Kenyan Clown and his Mau Mau Marxist and Homo-Leninist Brigades.
As for his conclusion being somewhat sufficient, his points leading to it just reiterate old stereotypes and character assassination
As for his psychosis, Liberalism is a Mental Disorder; especially in the area of equality, self-reliance and free-will.
Can we be honest?
Palin is gorgeous. The left are obsessed with appearances despite lacking anyone who can compete because the left are superficial in all things particularly logic and reason.
They know she is a huge political star in part because of her visual appeal and have been fearful of her popularity exploding since she arrived on scene. This is the reason for the constant simple-minded up/down, yes/no polls and the ongoing avoidance of any discussion of issues and ideology.
Jungians lay great stock on dreams and tend to see the characters in a dream as parts of the dreamer's psyche.
That's an approach that has little relevance in the real world of human activity where we have to deal with other people who have their own reasons for thinking and acting as they do.
A lot of Americans identify with and admire Palin because they see her as coming from a background similar to their own and living a life and having values similar to their own.
That surely does a lot more to explain her popularity than a pop Jungian trying to explain what part of his own psyche she represents.
The part that is still rational. The part that believes in the things that made America great. The part that agrees with what the Founding Fathers believed in: freedom, natural rights, and limited government.
People actually pay money for this idiot’s opinions? Sheesh.
It’s very difficult to be a psychologist while at the same time keeping a grip on reality.
This guy thinks reality is a dream.
“Jungians lay great stock on dreams and tend to see the characters in a dream as parts of the dreamer’s psyche. That’s an approach that has little relevance in the real world of human activity where we have to deal with other people who have their own reasons for thinking and acting as they do.”
Well stated. I think Kantian theory is in there somewhere—the belief that subjective perception creates objective reality. The stench of relativism permeates all of it.
As you point out in your second sentence, relativism always defeats itself because the relative is subject to the absolute.
(Relativism is the intellectual death knell of progressive ideology.)
She REALLY DOES live in their heads!!!
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