The Possessed?

One point I’ve alluded to, tying in with Dostoevsky’s novel Demons or alternatively translated, The Possessed, is people at the cutting edge of extremes in political areas may be genuinely possessed. That’s crazy talk! I’m not going to make a big argument in its favour but I’ll just have a little look at some emails that have come to light from Democrat Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot. This is someone who recently announced she would enact a policy of giving interviews only to journalists ‘of colour’ - which is unarguably racist. How any democratic populace could accept something so bizarre is kind of beyond me, but anyway. Such a policy is utterly toxic, but how toxic really is the mind, and the group-mind behind this? In terms of the answer, feel free to substitute  “seriously unhinged” for “possessed” if it feels more comfortable. I think to be honest you’d have to be seriously unhinged yourself to find this remotely sane behaviour, and is of course spectacularly reminiscent of  Jack Nicholson’s character in The Shining after he goes completely nuts. Imagine getting these kinds of messages from your boss at your workplace! Interesting little chats during break times, I would imagine, in the absence of said boss.

Also it seems worth wondering that within certain corridors of power, have such people as this been approved of and elevated to positions of authority in spite of being deranged or because they are deranged.