PSYCHIATRIC CONDITION OF FILIALDUMM
Background Data
Nations in the world usually compete with one another on several things, which include how to manufacture certain products that shall provide its people the advantage of winning income to better their living standard. In the attempts to carry out these responsibilities regarding trade and other numerous responsibilities, nations clash with one another but these “smooth conflicts” concerning trade had always appeared to be calm and devoid of major outburst. But since time immemorial certain nations' leaderships had deliberately championed unhealthy competition in the manner they dealt with each other concerning wars. These hostilities that occur between certain nations fighting for supremacy in the world over who command utmost respect and have exuberant power in the affairs of weapons and capability to destroy, had led the world on to the brink of nuclear war. Where nations had maintained this kind of frivolous imagination concerning “superiority” and had coupled this state with the surge of arms development and unstable environment leading to cold hostilities, it had concomitantly permitted global crime to rise at a higher proportion. Even though these condition of global instabilities had been cherished by certain leaders because of the opportunity it provides them to carry out their illegitimate activities (to obtain their ostensible wants) resulting in crimes against humanity, the world had most of the time stood by and had allowed these mishaps to take place unencumbered.
Definition
The world can function properly with the aid of those institutions that had been established to manage the affairs of the globe. This is only possible if certain groups would examine themselves about their actions and the repercussions their activities have on the instabilities that occur in the world. The psychiatric state of FILIALDUMM is experienced when nations together with their leaderships enjoy agitation for frivolous worldly supremacy that is rooted from an inherent disorder of insecurity with selves in the world. This general condition has deep roots. It has confederation with people being in sequential environments of warlike nations and their imbibing characteristics and imaginations of themselves as barbarous nations that used to live so many centuries ago on earth. War going is a symbol of “power” and “greatness”. Those nations that had become used to aggressive manner of conducting their affairs in general usually dream of escalating war and other illegitimate forms to maintain their “place” in the world community as a whole. For these groups of people, war is not primitive; it is a distinctive mark of civilisation. In short, at the filialdumm both a nation and its leadership act as if they have one head that makes its decisions, conducts its operations, makes mistakes, and lives in the barbarous environments reminding us of the violent days of biblical antiquity. Opposition is not exercised in the country. Not by their learned professionals or the geniuses. The nation hunts for war when even there is not one in the often, and usually uses propaganda to create one in its vicinity to quench their members' primitive thirst for war. Their problems are always transferred on its weaker neighbours and adherents that hardly recognise their manipulative behaviour. The latter can receive bullying and excessive destruction now and then around their territories.
Symptoms/Characteristics
Filialdumm is seen with nations that stress more on patriotism that is seen as working against the exercise of an individual's free will in the society. Laws that have the purpose of intimidating and threatening the general public to conform to certain behaviour and not to criticise the actions of the leadership are usually promulgated. Citizens, therefore, live with constant fear in secret but on the outward they profess to support and admire the authoritarian leadership class of their sick Emperor in his endeavours. The general atmosphere of a perfect filialdumm may not be seen today in the present world. But in the period of antiquity and antediluvian age, where Emperors and Kings who had the power to determine the life and death of a citizen ruled, these conditions were prevalent. At the filialdumm where the nation and its leadership at the same time were tremendously entangled themselves with power and frivolous worldly “superiority”, it was very easy to entice the citizens to commit a conspiracy against their own wishes. Mostly through the fear of their own lives and families and also the presence of psychiatric illness of Norman Psychosis, patients exhibited automatic response to a plot, which made them felt guilty for sometime later after the machination had been carried out. Religion and the enjoyment of a special relation with their gods or God would be seen and encouraged. The myths help them to reflect on how favourable they find themselves in the mentors' daily protection and guidance, and the contribution the latter makes on their turbulent wars. Wars are usually attributed to the mentors' intention to remove a particular race or people they do not like on the mentors' behalves.
Case Studies
Wars in the Antiquity
The leaders, whom never received opposition from the people they ruled because these nations had only one person that steered, directed everything, and initiated most of the wars that took place on earth. It was not uncommon to see the people following their leader because they agreed totally with everything he decided for them. Because of this tendency of revering their leaders, these leaders became their protector and at the same time their god who had absolute control over all citizens. So a nation would direct its operations, make its mistakes or succeed in war through one person. Since the head of one person controlled all these wars, it enabled war going to become easy and its catastrophic results never deterred these afflicted leaders who were probably not in contact with reality.
Second World War
The dramatic experiences that the people suffered during the Nazi regime portrayed that both the leadership and the people were well aware of the activities that led to the war and hostilities among foreign nationals. Though many citizens were in fear and had foreboding as to the direction of their country, still they showed strong support for their leaders. The results were that bystanders would think everyone knew and accepted what was going on in the country. The nation and its leadership made their mistakes together and therefore in the end there was no one to be blamed. Opposition was scarcely exercised and this enabled the leadership to conduct their atrocities, the results that the world had not experienced before for many centuries before.
Fallen Modern Communist States
The communist states were very good examples of the general condition of filialdumm. Here the state was the people and the people were the state. Decisions taken by the authoritarian regimes are understood to be the decision of the people. This sickly condition made it that wars became rampant and was never checked or profusely criticised. The people could not impede their leaders' thirst for war and conspiracies or any opposition for it is understood that at the filialdumm opposition is barely exercised by the people. Therefore, this general condition of psychiatric unfitness for the leadership as well as the people regarding war matters enabled the planet to be filled with rampant wars, which the results were catastrophic. It was therefore not out of place that many leaders called these regimes the “evil empire” for all their most noted activities were barbaric wars, destruction, application of force to grab what does not belong to them, and catastrophic disturbance which people hardly equated that with a general sick civilisation of people that had deep-seated psychiatric problems following them.
Analysis and Discussion
The psychiatric state of filialdumm will only revert to the world again, if only the citizens of the world do not become accustomed to the people and the type of civilisations we are dealing with. There are many people yea nations that their history reveals deep-seated trouble with insecurity with themselves. Their problems have to be revealed to the world so that we know where they were coming from and who they are in reality as human beings. If we naively neglect this foreboding and refuse to point them out to the world, then they shall come back with their sickly and manipulative tactics that almost destroyed the earth once. We shall be asked to account for the care we those who seriously know this and have been blessed to possess the normal selves that despite our poverty and trials, we should count ourselves as the most blessed. Our clam demeanour and the originality of our love, which is without pretence, should be capable to taking control of the world and lead the world into the promised paradise.
Conclusion
The nature of the war disorder is very real and it is been propagated without bias. There is no way we should neglect the responsibility as the blessed few to lead the world out of trouble. “All that glitters is not gold.” If we have succeeded in making the world look the way it is now, then we should be capable of taking good care of it so that what we have built ourselves and those we had no idea how they were formed, should not be destroyed. The world had been in turmoil before and this was just because certain things had been obscured to us for a long time. Now that we are aware of the type of different people living in the world, we should be able to fight hard within us ourselves individually and as a group to resist the power of evil and numerous madmen and women who pass before our collective eye everyday.
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