Friends,

Remember the Susan Smith case? A young single mother of three had drugged her children and left them in a slumber in the back seat of the car, which she ran into the river to drown them. But she appeared on national media, crying, saying that her children were missing, had been kidnapped. I believe she said that a tall black man had carjacked her, got her out of the vehicle, and drove away with her kids in the car.

This was in the early nineties. Later the truth came out and we learned that Ms. Smith had become involved with a man who did not want children. She had tried to split herself into the innocent mother who loved her children very much and the dark force the took them away from her. This attempted psychological fission was thwarted by the investigation which nailed down her guilt quickly.

Remember one of the chilling statements that came out of the Vietnam War era, We had to destroy the village to save it!?

It seems to me that Munchausen by Proxy syndrome must work this way. The mother must destroy the child in order to save him. She must save him in order to destroy him. And on and on. But that's enough of that.

Please think about this for next time: Without philosophy there can be no toilets; and without toilets there can be no philosophy. Seriously.

Until next time,

wingedcentaur