AMERICANS live now within a shared psychosis delusion. If you watch the "News," this is clear. Delusional ideas dominate the airwaves. They produce a gigantic committee to prove what everyone knows is already the case.

And then, on the other side, there are a bevy of experts--whose job is to argue against psychotic delusions.

Imagine a Super-Bowl. One team wins, the other team loses. The coaches and players shake hands and agree it was a game well played. 

Then, astonishingly, the coach of the losing team argues vehemently and persistently for the next year that his team actually WON the game. Imagine how bizarre this would be. USA today is the land of the bizarre or ridiculous or pathetic.

Yet everyone finds it so exciting. Perhaps its simply a radical reality TV show, a form of erotic entertainment to fill the empty self.

Richard Koenigsberg

Folie à Deux: The presence of the same or similar delusional ideas in two persons closely associated with one another. Folie: from French folly: madness. From fou: mad. French, à deux: for two. A shared psychosis.

The sharing of delusional (often persecutory) ideas and beliefs by two or more (folie à plusieurs) persons who cohabitate or form a social unit (e.g., a family, a cult, or an organization). One of the members in each of these groups is dominant and is the source of the delusional content and the instigator of the idiosyncratic behaviors that accompany the delusions.