Post By Prof. Paul Eidelberg
The fear-filled inability of the West to identify Islam as its mortal enemy despite the Paris attacks is simptomatic of a multi-national democratic pathology.
I call this pathology “Demophrenia.” Citing various psychiatrists and clinical psychlogists, I discuss this pathology at length in my book Demophrenia: Israel and the Malaise of Democracy (Prescott Press, 1994).
The book’s central chapter also appears in my book An Amercan Political Scientist in Israel (Lexington Books, 2010).
Demophrenia is a hitherto unrecognized mental disease. It is denial syndrome that incapacitates normless democracies — democracies steeped in moral relativism –from coping effectively with Evil.
The occurrence of Demophrenia in the State of Israel is not accidental; it is the consequence of modern Israel’s secular foundation, which engenders moral relativism, the philosophical root of Demphrenia. .
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