Playing God: Living in a world on the brink of collective madness

It has been clinically proven that U.S. President Donald Trump is a pathological liar. If the clinical findings were limited to this, we’d be considerably happy. But, unfortunately, when a world leader, the most powerful leader at that, lies that much and his whole administration and several of his allies accept them as facts, then we have a problem. Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist and psychologist who founded the school of analytical psychology, names this problem as a psychic epidemic. If you listen to him, we have an international situation, like the COVID-19 we had two years ago. Many authorities, like Dr. John Gartner, a former professor at Johns Hopkins University, keep telling us that Trump has crossed from grandiosity into full-blown psychosis. His delusions are now so dangerous, going through a manic spiral unfolding in real time, that he may harm himself or people close to him.