| 20th CENTURY HISTORY AS COLLECTIVE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
The very nature of human history is to produce “social movements” that generate massive forms of destruction and self-destruction. Up to now, these bizarre episodes of destruction and self-destruction…have been conceptualized as “normal.”
This is what the discipline of “HISTORY” is for: to pretend that massive forms of collective violence and self-destruction are “normal.”
Now, surprisingly, we are at a crucial moment: We are all at one able to perceive a political movement as a SEVERE FORM OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY. Now, we can begin to evaluate the ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY within the lens of (shared) psychopathology.
A new age in human thought has begun.
Best,
Richard Koenigsberg
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| Politics is that domain of human existence that regularly generates massive, bizarre forms of destruction and self-destruction. |
“History” is that discipline that represents massive, bizarre forms of destruction and self destruction... as "normal." |
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First World War Casualties
The figures below are from Chris Trueman's HistoryLearningSite.co.uk
| Country |
Men mobilised |
Killed |
Wounded |
POW’s + missing |
Total casualties |
casualties in % of men mobilised |
| Russia |
12 mil |
1.7 mil |
4.9 mil |
2.5 mil |
9.15 mil |
76.3 |
| France |
8.4 mil |
1.3 mil |
4.2 mil |
537,000 |
6.1 mil |
73.3 |
| GB + Empire |
8.9 mil |
908,000 |
2 mil |
191,000 |
3.1 mil |
35.8 |
| Italy |
5.5 mil |
650,000 |
947,000 |
600,000 |
2.1 mil |
39 |
| USA |
4.3 mil |
126,000 |
234,000 |
4,500 |
350,000 |
8 |
| Japan |
800,000 |
300 |
900 |
3 |
1210 |
0.2 |
| Romania |
750,000 |
335,000 |
120,000 |
80,000 |
535,000 |
71 |
| Serbia |
700,000 |
45,000 |
133,000 |
153,000 |
331,000 |
47 |
| Belgium |
267,000 |
13,800 |
45,000 |
34,500 |
93,000 |
35 |
| Greece |
230,000 |
5000 |
21,000 |
1000 |
27,000 |
12 |
| Portugal |
100,000 |
7222 |
13,700 |
12,000 |
33,000 |
33 |
| Total Allies |
42 mil |
5 mil |
13 mil |
4 mil |
22 mil |
52% |
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| Germany |
11 mil |
1.7 mil |
4.2 mil |
1.1 mil |
7.1 mil |
65 |
| Austria |
7.8 mil |
1.2 mil |
3.6 mil |
2.2 mil |
7 mil |
90 |
| Turkey |
2.8 mil |
325,000 |
400,000 |
250,000 |
975,000 |
34 |
| Bulgaria |
1.2 mil |
87,000 |
152,000 |
27,000 |
266,000 |
22 |
| Total Central Powers |
22.8 mil |
3.3 mil |
8.3 mil |
3.6 mil |
15 mil |
67 |
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| Grand Total |
65 mil |
8.5 mil |
21 mil |
7.7 mil |
37 mil |
57% |
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