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Fifth Column
Progressive Personality Disorder
2006-08-24
The following is based on a very perceptive post by someone named John Moore, which I found through a link to a link on Dr. Sanity's grand rounds of the psychosphere today.

It looks as if it were hastily composed in a manic burst of inspiration, but it's so good, and so accurate, that it deserves wider dissemination. I've taken the liberty of cleaning it up, editing it a bit, adding a few things here and there, and putting it in the format of the DSM. However, most of the credit is due its perceptive author, the above-referenced John Moore.

I've also taken the additional liberty of altering the name of the condition, from his "Cognitive Disorder of Progressives" to "Progressive Personality Disorder." . . .
Another attempt at a scientific description of moonbattery. Go read it all.
Posted by:Mike

#8  somebody forward this to .com. We all knew LA was sick! LOL
Posted by: 49 Pan   2006-08-24 16:15  

#7  Damn, that should have come with a drink alert! ;)
Posted by: Swamp Blondie   2006-08-24 12:32  

#6  Superb. But I'd put #3 at #1.
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-08-24 10:18  

#5  Progression into the "moral highground" of ostrich holes.
Posted by: Duh!   2006-08-24 09:15  

#4  phil_b, neoteny. With E, not with O.

Please check a dictionary. As I already noted a few days back, neotony is something else either related to tonus (then it would be neotonia) ot tone => neo-new; tone-sound.
Posted by: twobyfour   2006-08-24 06:50  

#3  Indeed, hysterically (LOL) accurate.

The lack of cognition / denial makes it largely untreatable. We'll just have to wirehead 'em, warehouse 'em, or kill 'em.

I hope Dr Krauthammer gets to see this, LOL.
Posted by: flyover   2006-08-24 05:18  

#2  I'd argue that the syndrome described results from behavioural neotony (neotony is the retention of juvenile characteristics into adulthood).

A plausible case can be made that behaviour is a sort of accelerated evolution. Neotony is a very common evolutionary mechanism. But bear in mind that evolution has countless thousands of failures for every success.

If neotony is at work in the evolution of behaviour we should expect the same very high failure rate in the behaviours it produces.

BTW, while Progressives may believe in evolution, hardly any of them understand it. Most think evolution is like Marxist historical determinism, which it most definitely isn't.
Posted by: phil_b   2006-08-24 01:26  

#1  excellent!
Posted by: Flavitle Omart7450   2006-08-24 00:46  

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