Comment 67466

By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted August 05, 2011 at 11:39:32

Sorry Bob, but answering to "advocacy groups" is part of your job as mayor.

I'm certainly not ready to diagnose Bratina with any clinical disorders, but his actions recently certainly haven't been rational. It's the kind of "I'm the mayor, I am Hamilton" logic befitting a king. His shock and confusion at opposition seems almost a bad impression of Qadaffi. In strictly non-psychiatric terms, I suspect that being Mayor has "gone to his head".

In general, it makes me wonder if there's a group of psychological conditions specific (or endemic) to power. Gaining that kind of position changes the way you interact with nearly everyone around you, and that's bound to have consequences for the psyche. If power is a factor, that might help to explain why certain individuals seem to get far "crazier" as they move up the ladder, say from councillor to mayor...

"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century." — Lewis Mumford

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