As we were discussing today on Free Friends Forum, worldwide the (mis)leaders of the governments are predictably those most hungry for power to control others because abused/neglected by their parents and driven by the need for revictimization as proxy revenge against the parents damning and damaging acts.
Here is from Lloyd deMause’s book “The Emotional Life of Nations” on John (Jack) Kennedy’s “Cuban Missile Crisis” that many consider brought us closest to a nuclear war:
“When Soviet missiles were later discovered in Cuba put there as the Soviet’s response to the invasion of Cuba Kennedy’s advisors admitted that “militarily it doesn’t mean that much,” since Soviet submarines with nuclear warheads had long been in Cuban waters. Yet the president maintained that, rather than feeling “humiliated,” he was ready to risk a nuclear war over their immediate removal, vowing “If Khrushchev wants to rub my nose in the dirt, it’s all over.” He bragged to his associates that he would “cut off the balls” of Khrushchev, saying “he can’t do this to me” and that it was “like dealing with Dad. All give and no take.” Even though he admitted he was risking plunging the world into “a holocaust,” he said that Americans wanted military action so badly that if he didn’t act immediately to have them removed, he would risk being impeached.”
This is what we have always been dealing with, adolescent “adults” with their fingers on the nuclear bomb button with one hand while the other holds onto their penis.
Which is why we need peaceful parenting for a peaceful world and an end to revictimization by misleaders like Kennedy.
True, but when all is said and done, the two men kept the lines of communication open, eventually stood down in the face of what would have been utter insanity, and the world survived.
Today we don't have the same open lines of communication because ... well ... you know ... "Putin! Putin! Putin!" I don't know about clutching their penises ... both Putin and Sleepy Joe seem a bit old for that, and I doubt the latter can even find his (lol).
But almost everyone I know of agrees: the risk is as great as it's ever been since that early-1960s crisis.
As we were discussing today on Free Friends Forum, worldwide the (mis)leaders of the governments are predictably those most hungry for power to control others because abused/neglected by their parents and driven by the need for revictimization as proxy revenge against the parents damning and damaging acts.
Here is from Lloyd deMause’s book “The Emotional Life of Nations” on John (Jack) Kennedy’s “Cuban Missile Crisis” that many consider brought us closest to a nuclear war:
“When Soviet missiles were later discovered in Cuba put there as the Soviet’s response to the invasion of Cuba Kennedy’s advisors admitted that “militarily it doesn’t mean that much,” since Soviet submarines with nuclear warheads had long been in Cuban waters. Yet the president maintained that, rather than feeling “humiliated,” he was ready to risk a nuclear war over their immediate removal, vowing “If Khrushchev wants to rub my nose in the dirt, it’s all over.” He bragged to his associates that he would “cut off the balls” of Khrushchev, saying “he can’t do this to me” and that it was “like dealing with Dad. All give and no take.” Even though he admitted he was risking plunging the world into “a holocaust,” he said that Americans wanted military action so badly that if he didn’t act immediately to have them removed, he would risk being impeached.”
This is what we have always been dealing with, adolescent “adults” with their fingers on the nuclear bomb button with one hand while the other holds onto their penis.
Which is why we need peaceful parenting for a peaceful world and an end to revictimization by misleaders like Kennedy.
Hi Jack.
True, but when all is said and done, the two men kept the lines of communication open, eventually stood down in the face of what would have been utter insanity, and the world survived.
Today we don't have the same open lines of communication because ... well ... you know ... "Putin! Putin! Putin!" I don't know about clutching their penises ... both Putin and Sleepy Joe seem a bit old for that, and I doubt the latter can even find his (lol).
But almost everyone I know of agrees: the risk is as great as it's ever been since that early-1960s crisis.