The Mysterious Mr. Bush by Deepak Chopra for Huffington Post

[applegrove]

The Mysterious Mr. Bush
by Deepak Chopra
for Huffington Post
January 22, 2007

"Soon after he leaves office, biographies will begin to appear about Pres. Bush, and no doubt he will produce a volume of memoirs. Fairly rapidly historians will move in with their considered, long-term judgments. I will be eager to read these books, because no one since Richard Nixon has been such a mysterious personality.

We've all had a chance to observe Bush closely, and insofar as the private person can be assessed, he displays a set of strange characteristics. Here is a long list of them, offered in a sense of genuine bafflement:

He sleeps well at night over a war that deeply disturbs most Americans.

He is baffled by the notion that secret prisons, the use of torture, and indefinitely detaining "enemy combatants" without charge could be immoral or unAmerican.


.........SNIP"


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/the-mysterious-mr-bush_b_39253.html

[Olney Blue]

1. Accurate, and frightening, assessment of *. K and R.

[Oleladylib]

2. Thank you, Applegrove, for the link..Amazingly on target.

[applegrove]

3. It is a week old. I'm lucky it was still on Huffington Post.

[Frustratedlady]

Bingo!

He still boils down to a wannabe schoolyard bully. I thank my lucky stars I never had to work around him.

[peacetalksforall]

4. Jumping ahead - he will need historians who will be willing to ghost

write and a bunch of lawyers to vet the chapters. I don't know if famous historians such as McCullough or Brinkley would consider writing his autobiography. I doubt it. They'll be writing their own. So who gets the writing job, someone from Dobson's office? Someone selected by Barbara?

[Lisa]

12. someone more competent than the ghostwriter for "his" first book, I bet

Even Bush's people aren't trumpeting that one much. Supposedly Karen Hughes had a hand in it. And I must confess that I did try to read "A Charge To Keep" and kept nodding off, it was so boring! Even a fairly-untalented writer (waves own hand) could have made something out of Bush's story ... growing up in a powerful family, visiting exciting places like still-closed Communist China in the 1970s, flying a jet plane. And yet the writer somehow skipped over all of this, and Bush's own personality quirks as well (which at least would have made for some inadvertent comedy as he bumbled around).

[truth2power]

5. Bored and incurious...

these are other indicators of sociopathy.

Which is NOT to say that if you're ever bored or there's some subject that doesn't pique your interest that you're a sociopath. It's part of a constellation of symptoms.

Just sayin'...before someone jumps in here to raise that issue. :eyes:

[teryang]

6. Let them eat cake n/t

[KingofNewOrleans]

7. He seems incredibly simple to me

He's just arrogant and stupid. He also likes to be sheltered from bad news because that would cause cognitive dissonance and thinkin' is hard.

[glitch]

8. The Murderous Mr. Bush

that's how my brain processed the subject line at first.

It doesn't seem that complicated once you give up trying to think of him as an incompetent president and just think of him as another lying criminal.

One of the comments on the HP thread pegged it: forget wondering about Bush and start wondering about the corrupt people/institutions who put/keep him in power.

[InvisibleTouch]

9. I've read many of Chopra's books...

...and as with so many other "spiritual" philosophies, I don't share his entire outlook, but there's certainly a lot that I do agree with - and when you're "using what works and leaving the rest," there's a lot of insight to find in Chopra's writings. He definitely has wisdom and awareness. I would expect nothing less than this kind of evaluation of * from him.

[harrison]

10. Narcissistic Pesonality Disorder would be my

guess about Mr. Bush. They are not nice people and they never think they are wrong.

[flying rabbit]

11. Interesting last comment

"Yet in the end it's more important to try and understand a man who for better or worse has embodied eight years of our national history. In some mysterious way he is the projection of what millions of people wanted America to be."

Whether or not he won either election is a moot point. Enough people were willing to be asleep at the wheel to make this possible.