Middle East Madness by Paul Levy
Before I came across the name wetiko, I made up the name “malignant egophrenia,"—or ME disease—to denote the fundamental insanity that afflicts our species. ME disease can also stand for “Middle East” Disease, as the evil and insanity that is playing out in the Middle East can be seen to be an acute outbreak of a systemic disease that pervades the greater body politic of our species. Just like every fragment of a hologram contains the whole hologram within it, what is getting acted out in the Middle East is symbolically—on all scales—reflecting back to us the deeper sickness that we suffer from: individually within ourselves, relationally with others and collectively as a whole. This is to say that the essence of wetiko is getting dreamed up in full-bodied form—both literally and symbolically—through events in the Middle East. What this means is that what is happening in the Middle East is a revelation. As if a reflection in a mirror reflecting back to us an unconscious dynamic w