significantly from actual reality, we are suffering from the mental illness of delusion.  Inviting the tanks to the summer fair was distorting the children’s mind maps with incorrect information; the event was creating in the young minds the mental illness delusion.

In reality, war is the diametric opposite of fun.  The reality of war is: dead babies eaten by dogs, faces burned off, millions of grieving families, life-long psychological trauma.  Understandably the reality of war was kept from the children at the fair, and this allowed the delusion to persist.  The children were allowed to perceive war as fun, in stark contrast to the reality; they became deluded.  It may be argued that this delusion is mild, but this is not the case.  The difference between “fun” and “war” could not be more extreme and therefore the delusion given to the children should be classed as severe.  The consequences of the illness war are also as extreme as they could possibly be, and so as severe mental illnesses, the only rational course of action is that those employed in the mental health services should shoulder some responsibility for curing these illnesses.  In fact, as the consequences of this mental illness are more severe than the consequences of any other mental illness (ie horrific deaths and mutilation by the million), the rational course of action would be for mental health workers to make curing war their highest priority!  But they don’t.

The delusion of war as glamorous actually creates the mental illness war.  This will be explained.

We also create this delusion in our children when we allow them to play with war toys, and when we allow them to watch violent war-oriented television programmes and films, and computer games.  When we teach them war is fun, we are damaging their mental health and creating wars of the future.  There is a six year old boy I know who has a plastic toy M15 assault machine gun.  On the side of the “toy”, true to the actual weapon, is a switch which flicks from “safe”, to “semi” to “auto”.   On the actual guns the purpose of the switch is to click from safe to “kill one person at a time” to “kill lots of people all at once”.  Now, when there is something bad going on, the truth is often attacked, as truth exposes that badness.  Who would show to this young boy what that switch actually means in reality?  Would we show the child footage of people’s heads being blown off one at a time, and all at once?  We wouldn’t expose that truth to the child.  We persecute that truth by concealing it, pretending it isn’t there; we hide the nasty truth that we have created.  A strong sign that we are guilty of doing something bad is when we persecute the truth in this way.  The truth was also persecuted at the school fair.  One parent protested that the tanks should not be there.  When the children asked why the man was taking photos one of the organisers attacked the truth by lying.  The photos were taken to help campaign against the insanity of war.  One woman lied to the children when she said “because he thinks they (the tanks) are really good.”  When the truth is attacked like this, it is a strong clue that something evil is going on.  The truth was persecuted by a pro-war man at the fair who           

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