Trump, Declining

MODERN MEDICINE extends life, and mitigates illness. Ironically, the extension and preservation of lief, by allowing us to live, gives us more opportunity to be ill, and forces us to endure it. Goethe feared, in the eighteenth century, that the sweeping growth of machinery, as he put it, would turn us all into each other's nursemaids, and so, in a sense, it has. Our social stigmas motivate us to ignore and to drastically under report mental illness compared to physical illness. Nobody enjoys perfect health, physical or mental. At one time or another, we all suffer from each. It may be that physical health is best defined as "feeling good", and that mental health is best defined as "being happy". Depression, anger, frustration, and anxiety are perfectly normal human responses to external stimuli, unless they last long, and endure. Likewise high blood pressure and headaches. Everyone tells lies. It is the number of lies, their context, and their source which determine psychological pathology. When the number of lies exceeds fifteen thousands over a mere three year period, when all the lies are so blatant, so obvious, spoken without the slightest hesitation or remorse or embarrassment, in front of millions of people, by the president of the United States, arguably, mental illness is present in the president. When the president of the United States says that windmills cause cancer, that George Washington's army captured airports, that Italian-American friendship goes back to ancient Roman times, and that people might be cured of the Covid 19 virus by ingesting ultraviolet light and Lysol, the presence of mental illness within the president seems evident. It is little wonder that the mental health profession has overwhelmingly determined that Donald Trump is indeed mental ill, suffering from malignant narcissism, delusions, paranoia, among other forms of mental pathology. The president later tried to cover himself by claiming that he was only joking, just to get a reaction from the media. Actually, he was dead serious, and talking to the medical experts. His condition, whatever it is precisely, is obviously getting worse. What is much more alarming is that not only do his followers either fail to see this or pretend not to see it; they seem themselves to be suffering from some form of mental illness themselves, some combination of unresolved anger, among many other illnesses, including mass delusion.