Trump's inability to write is NOT a sign of dementia. It's a sign of something worse. [View all]

[DetlefK]

1. Lying comes as naturally to Trump as breathing. He lies about all things big and small. He lies about things where lies aren't even necessary.

2. Trump rambles and meanders through speeches, stumbling from one topic to the next.

3. Trump blurts his unfiltered thoughts into Twitter, with no thought spared to the question whether he should write that or whether this is the best way to communicate this particular thought to the public.

4. He doesn't know how to write basic words. "hamberder", "achomlishment", "intenially", "Joe Bidan"

What does this tell us?

It doesn't tell us that Trump is losing his mental faculties due to dementia or similar.

It tells us that Trump has utterly, finally and thoroughly run out of fucks to give.



Donald Trump doesn't give enough of a fuck to lie to you with a believable lie.

Donald Trump doesn't give enough of a fuck to make sure that you understand what he's trying to tell you.

Donald Trump doesn't give enough of a fuck to write words in a way that other people could read them.





Sure that's politically dangerous because of the power invested into him, but let's look at the psychological dimension.
What happens to a person that insulates itself from other opinions, other ideas, other people?

Let me refer to a short-story used in german-courses. "Ein Tisch ist ein Tisch" ("A table is a table") by Peter Bichsel. It's a simple yet heart-wrenching story.
An old man lived mostly alone. One day, out of boredom, he decided to rename things. A bed is a picture. A table is a carpet. A chair is a clock. And so forth. He liked it how this mixed things up and he began to use his alternative meaning more and more frequently. This alternative language, this alternative reality, became his new home and he forgot how to use proper language. He's all alone now. He cannot talk to other people and other people cannot talk to him. His isolation is complete.





"Hell is other people" is a misunderstood phrase. Hell is not BEING around other people. The phrase means that the presence of other people forces us the evaluate ourselves with respect to how we want other people to see us.

Trump has mentally retreated from the outside world. Things are whatever he wants them to be. As his friend Rudy Giuliani said: "There is no truth."

What awaits a mind that has given up on the corrective that is the outside world?

Insanity.