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Infantilism and the Fate of the World
by claire Tuesday, Aug 22 2017, 11:55pm
international / prose / post

As children we are taught and forced by circumstance to take RESPONSIBILITY for our lives, those that resist become pathological personalities, infants in adult bodies, displaying all the characteristics of infants, chucking tantrums and blaming others when things do not go their way; maturing adults must navigate new opposing forces as they develop as a matter of survival -- which forces are varied but for the sake of simplicity loosely characterised here into positive and negative or constructive and destructive. Those that succeed in assessing, balancing and learning lessons from all the forces and circumstances that confront them become mature successful adults.

However, those that fail to adjust and overcome their inadequacies fail to grow and more often than not, retreat into the pathology of infantilism, making irrational demands and forever blaming others for the predicaments they have created for themselves by refusing to adjust, grow and take responsibility -- there is no easy way.

Infantilism in adults was rare only a few generations past, however, today entire populations have retreated into incredibly infantile states. These groups, after failing to adjust and deal with prevailing cultural and natural forces, become passive children requiring leadership from ‘parents’ in the form of authoritarian political leadership. Their failures and inadequacies force them to become subservient to authority, which of course is a translated form of parental, ‘mummy/daddy’ guidance and the security that appears to offer.

However, today’s leaders reflect the populations from which they were formed/emerged, and so today’s leaders reflect varying degrees of inadequate behaviour and childishness, the worst case of course is the USA where a completely lost and incapable child now ‘leads’ the nation, however, that child, Donald Trump, cannot help but behave as the child he is, chucking tantrums and constantly blaming others for his own obvious inadequacies and failures, which disguises to an extent, his desperate need to be secure, successful and survive, and so that child also seeks guidance and security, which need is filled by those better able than him to survive and lead, hence in the USA we have real leadership from non-representative others that lead elected 'leaders,' a tragic state of affairs as those hidden from public view forces, survive not by example but by rigging the game or CHEATING, a favourite infantile reaction/impulse.

The United States if assessed soberly is clearly in early adolescent development as a nation, it has a very long way to go before it could join an adult world, which world has failed to rein in and assist America, as it now displays extreme counter-survival behaviours. There is no avoiding the issue as we all know, yet the world has failed to assist America because the belligerent adolescent is now able to defeat its ‘father’ and refuses to listen to good sense. In fact the USA is clearly a delinquent nation reigning havoc on ‘other’ weaker nations and constantly (violently) pushing to get its own way, no matter how irrational and destructive its methods.

The situation has now reached critical mass, we have in reality an impetuous child with his finger on the nuclear button, which reality could hardly be described as sane or sound, yet that is the reality the world faces due to its failures to assist America constructively, though it is known that delinquent children often require harsh or extreme measures which need to be constantly adjusted to its level of counter-survival behaviour.

However, the world and its population have failed as is plain to see and America has now become a dangerous psychotic nation which threatens its and the world’s survival.

It is an extraordinary situation and if it is not constructively dealt with soon, which is not a difficult process, though probably radical, it would end in disaster for the entire ‘family’ of nations. And afterward, there would be no-one to blame, but by then it would be too late for humanity.

Radical and immediate REMEDIAL action from every sane, mature and RESPONSIBLE person on the planet is NOW required if indeed we are to survive as a species.