crapping rainbows in your brain

awesome synchronicity just now:

i'm mildly hyperthymic now(after yesterdays dysthymia), so i decided to do a little more research on cyclothymia(been a while since I read about it).  Cyclothymia is a mild form of "manic depression" or more properly "Bipolar disorder".  My cycles seem to be less frequent, which is good.

anyways hyperthymia is a mild mania, the opposite of dysthymia, which is a negative state of mind, darkened, joyless.

ok, so i type in hyperthymia in google, and one of the links is a list of psychology definitions (based off the dsm-iv), as I'm reading further down, I notice "delusional" as a definition:

a false belief based on incorrect inference about external reality that sustained despite what almost everyone else believes and despite what constitutes incontrovertible and obvious proof or evidence to the contrary. [DSM-IV]

as I'm reading this, the thoughts of all the bullshit happening now in our political system and the theocratic push that's happening, especially with regards to evolution and the "pro-life" push, as well as "activist judges"(isn't it funny how the right takes exactly what they do, and label their opponent as one who engages in that conduct... Judge not, lest ye be judged, for in the manner in which ye judge, so also shall ye be judged...)

are not these beliefs in opposition to what constitutes incontrovertible and obvious proof or evidence  to the contrary?

so I had clicked on a link earlier in a metafilter post, and it was open in another tab.  as i began to read

<a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17852">this article</a> by Bill Moyers (already, from the first paragraph, I'm hooked... i recommend it!!!), he says "...one story after another drives home the fact that the delusional is no longer marginal but has come in from the fringe to influence the seats of power."

exactly what the fuck i was thinking.

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