'The Patient'

The Sick Body Politic

I don''t know when it started, but our body politic stopped being normal this decade. If anything, it became unhinged, the more the evidence mounted in favour of Global Warming and Climate Change. The claims of those in denial got to be more strident, more crazy, and largely in denial of things like facts.

I'm sure the people who vote for these idiots, who do not believe in anthropogenic climate change are doing it out of a desperate sense of denial. Tony Abbott becoming the Prime Minster of Australia pretty much destroyed my faith in politics. The United States electing Donald Trump essentially stopped me blogging here because... come on, what would be the point? You're talking about clinically insane people with strongly held stupid beliefs in the highest office of government.

The only conclusion I can draw from it is that the mental illness that makes people deny things and work up a passion is rather widespread. There's a lot of mentally ill people in positions of power, pulling the levers of government, that represents a lot of mentally ill people in the electorate. There is no reason to the absence of reason, by its very definition. You can't talk to the crazy about their being crazy.

When you're sick, you don't really have a normal sense of your self. When you are running a fever, you have thoughts about your illness that are genuinely wild. You think about death and dying and other crazy, bleak things as you suffer. None of it makes any sense when you finally regain yourself and recover from the fever. It would be much worse if you were beset by mental illness and couldn't face scientific facts.

This song is basically about one of those kinds of irrational trains of thought.



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