He was an inverted human. His unconscious was his conscious. He acted out our most repressed drives, fantasies, and wishes. He provided us with a glimpse of the horrors that lie beneath the veneer, the barbarians at our personal gates, and what it was like before we invented civilization.


A member of a mentally disturbed and failing nation, who lived through disturbed and failing times.

In short: America was about theatre, not about life. To enjoy the spectacle (and be subsumed by it), she demanded the suspension of judgment, depersonalization, and de-realization.

Catharsis was tantamount, in american dramaturgy, to self-annulment. Antiterrorism was nihilistic not only operationally, or ideologically. Its very language and narratives were nihilistic. Political dispute was conspicuous nihilism - and its leaders served as  role models, annihilating themselves as Men only to re-appear as  stychia.

An adolescent movement, a reaction to narcissistic injuries inflicted upon a narcissistic (and rather psychopathic) toddler nation-state.

Sam Vaknin