In the course of the First World War (1914-1918), approximately 9 million men were killed, 21 million injured, and 8 million captured or reported missing.

The death toll for one five-month period in 1916—during which the Battles of the Somme and Verdun took place—was almost a million men. This represented more than 6,600 men killed every day: 277 every hour, or nearly five each minute.

What a massive, monumental episode of psychopathology. What nonsense to locate psychopathology solely in the minds of individuals. Yet historians write about the First World War as if it was "normal." If it happened, it must be normal. Normalization of the fantastic.

The sickness of the human race. Collective psychopathology. Massive denial. It's happening right now. Genocidal murder. Ah, but call it "war" and it seems normal, acceptable. 

The psychiatrists, however, have no problem writing about "social anxiety disorders" (shyness). Psychosis in the world. Psychotic reactions to psychosis. Massive denial. No wonder Donald Trump could receive seventy-million votes.

Richard Koenigsberg