A-Infos (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #13-26 - Trump, the lucid executioner. A specious narrative of mental illness. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

"In the Tarot, the Fool is the only card of the 22 Major Arcana that is 
not numbered; on rare occasions, it has been assigned the number zero. 
Its value is usually the lowest in the deck, except in games based on 
the Trump cards, where it has the highest value ever." At the end of the 
last century, the Italian Penal Code still contained an article (Article 
297) that punished "anyone who, within the territory of the State, 
offends the honor or prestige of the Head of a foreign State" with 
"imprisonment for one to three years." It was one of the many crimes 
inherited directly from the fascist regime, which was evidently also 
afraid of the jokes circulating about foreign heads of state.

Fortunately for everyone, albeit extremely late (it was abolished in 
1999), these types of offenses are no longer punishable. Especially 
since, with everything that has been said and written about the White 
House occupant in recent months, the courts would be paralyzed by the 
legal proceedings related to that crime, and the prisons would be even 
more full than they already are.

It should be noted, however, that in recent years, this is not the first 
time that public figures in positions of power have been suspected of 
suffering from some kind of mental disorder, more or less serious. For 
this reason, some of the things written below apply not only to the 
person cited above.

Most of these offensive opinions, as is easy to see, tend to emphasize 
the mental condition of a person who, without necessarily referring to 
the definitions contained in widely copied psychiatric treatises, is 
considered "crazy."

It should be noted that this is likely the first time such judgments 
have been shared both by the semi-literate people who populate social 
media and by the refined intellectuals who warm the seats of TV.

But someone should, sooner or later, also realize that-leaving aside the 
historic and more serious debate about "mental illness"-if the President 
of the United States truly had problems of that kind, at least two main 
consequences would arise, one of which, however, receives little or no 
attention.

The first is that we are all in danger, because if a mentally disturbed 
person walks around the subway holding a knife, the damage he could 
cause would be limited to his radius of action and infinitely less than 
that caused by a Head of State in the full exercise of his duties. As 
the current events demonstrate.

The second consequence is that, if the individual's mental condition 
were truly what many people attribute to him, we would be dealing with 
someone who is, as they say, "incapable of understanding" and 
therefore-by definition-not culpable for his actions, however terrible 
they may be.

This is why the question of whether "he is acting or not" remains just a 
classic joke.

The efforts of passionate people trying to label the pathology (or 
pathologies) attributable to the US President become, in practice, 
merely an attempt to explain the reason (or reasons) for his bizarre 
behavior, which is of little use. The real question, which goes beyond a 
more or less accurate psychiatric diagnosis, is the amount of power that 
can be concentrated in a single person today and the existence or 
otherwise of mechanisms capable of preventing this from leading to 
epochal disasters.

It almost seems as if, in this historical period, we had returned to the 
era of so-called "absolutism," or at least a variant of it that could be 
called "democratic absolutism." Even if the person in question 
continually refers to a divinity that-in some way-is, if not above, then 
at least behind his actions. A sort of "21st-century divine right," 
revised and corrected and, above all, highly suitable for dissemination 
through the mass media and with the complicity of so-called "Artificial 
Intelligence." Let's leave aside, fascinating as it may be, the 
implications of the potential short circuit that occurs in the 
relationship between a supposed intelligence and a person who appears to 
desperately need it.

The right of life and death that the powerful still exercise today, both 
apparently subjectively and through the actions of their governments, is 
plain for anyone capable of reasoning. Those responsible for the ongoing 
massacres of defenseless people are not only the armies but also the 
politicians who approve measures that facilitate deaths at sea, who 
starve entire populations, who allow mathematical algorithms to decide 
who lives and who dies.

Like everyone else, even "crazy" people are not all the same. Those who 
sit at the pinnacle of power are one thing, while those who populate 
jokes because they think they're Napoleon are another. The former embody 
the worst that humanity can produce; they demonstrate that the 
destruction of power is an essential objective if we want to build a 
better society than the one we live in. They demonstrate that "good" 
powers, as the poet said, have never existed, do not exist, and will 
never exist.

Equating the President of a major world power with a person suffering 
from a mental disorder is-we'll write this last but put it first-an 
extreme form of insult to someone who usually suffers and is unable to 
even defend himself. That is, he is almost always a victim, while the 
other, "crazy" or not, is certainly a perpetrator.

Pepsy

pepsy.noblogs.org

https://umanitanova.org/trump-lucido-carnefice-narrazione-pretestuosa-di-un-disagio-mentale/
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