Madness taught me that anyone can fall for it during moments of vulnerability.
Madness taught me that very deep sadness, without apparent end, also known as depressioncan be considered a form of madness, since it is irrational to think that a psychic and emotional state is going to last indefinitely.
Madness taught me that a cigarette can be a great ally to combat the anxiety caused by facing the abyss of oneself without the protective shell of delusional elaboration.
madness teaches. And it’s easier to see it coming from her after having passed through her, as is the case with me.
All life, or at least since adolescence, I was afraid of going crazy. I finally did it. I fulfilled the prophecy of my pubescent fear. I worked on it in my therapeutic space as one of my core fears. Today I am no longer afraid of going crazy, I have antibodies and professional, friendly, work, loving and family support.
Madness teaches that our society is not fully prepared to accommodate mental health crises. Although we have good public hospitals and private clinics.
Just as we reacted to the Covid-19 pandemic, it is necessary to act in the face of the mental health epidemic that we are experiencing and that we are going to see increase in the coming years. A vaccine for madness will not be found, but it is possible to innovate in containment policies to face mental health as a social and subjective problem. A pending task for the next municipal, provincial and national governments.
Everyone can shoot the key where their imagination or their obsessions rule. Each madman with his theme, says the saying, to which we must respond: that the madmen share their themes, their follies. The crazy people we all are. Because needing mental health spaces is common, what is rare is not doing it.
During my hospitalization at the Agudo Ávila Psychiatric Hospital The professionals were key, but also the other patients with whom I began to elaborate my suffering. Although at the time I couldn’t see that I had gone crazy. It would take me a month or so to realize it.
I am telling this from the comfort of my workshop, in the relative, valuable and fragile freedom that the democratic system grants. Because I had a tender madness. If he had been dangerously or violently insane, he would be locked up in a jail or mental hospital. But my madness created wonderful stories. Stories that I hope to transform into novels or audiovisual content. Madness was a bridge that allowed me to believe that I was saving Argentina and the entire world from the social, climatic and economic catastrophe that clearly threatens us.
The fact of having known several months in advance that Milei was going to win the election, or at least that she had a good chance of winning the PASO and triumphing in the ballotage, is due in the least to a hypothetical prophetic ability, if not more. Well, because I read and read the surveys, including the CELAG one, for being a reference for Cristina, who also anticipated this result. Knowing these numbers, she chose Massa. Could it be that Sergio Tomás is a good adversary for a second round against Milei?
The fact that Milei is crazy makes the fascination for her figure grow. Regardless of whether or not he wins the November election, I think he’s going to end up living in some kind of lockdown. His latest statements regarding China make me doubt that he can be president or hold office. Specifically, what he declared was that he was going to cut off trade relations with the Asian giant because it is a communist country.
I would be surprised if the government of the People’s Republic of China does not favor the candidacy of the current Minister of Economy in the following months, to avoid future conflicts with an important supplier and destination for Chinese trade such as Argentina. To the point that it was recently integrated into the BRICS.
Milei is crazy and it is possible to tell by various symptomsas the book says Crazy, by Juan Luis González: “What happens in an unstable country if an unstable leader appears? A leader who had a childhood of aggression from his father, and remained without friends, and without a partner ”. Javier Milei has a medium who trained his sister Karina to communicate with Conan, his dead dog, of whom he made six clones in 2017 (two of them died) that cost him $50,000. But it seems that it could cost the country something more, since he communicates with those clones –seeking to communicate with the deceased Conan– and it seems that one told him that he should get involved in politics, that he is going to be president. (Color note provided by the editor of this magazine: Norman Bates, the protagonist of Psychosis Hitchcock, communicated with stuffed animals, a feature of his madness that is further developed in the modern series bates motel). It is also curious that the effervescent diffuser of the anti-breed promotes a canine breed in his domestic life.
count the book Crazy that Milei, before being a representative, lived in an apartment that his father had bought for him and drove in a car that his father had given him. Every time he bought her something, he would tell her:
“You see that you are useless.
Milei, in his search for a more likable father figure, took refuge in Judaism, although later, when he said about buying children and selling organs, Judaism in general distanced itself from the libertarian candidate. She, however, kept in touch with Rabbi Axel Wahnish, with whom she communicates on WhatsApp every day and, every two weeks, holds a meeting deep where there is always a place for political seasoning in the stew of the spiritual. “His primary and secondary classmates at Cardenal Copello nicknamed him El Loco. He had long hair, so he might as well have been called Wig. However, they called him El Loco.”
Milei enters a mystical path advised by the medium Celia Melamed, who trains Karina Milei in telepathy with animals while convincing Javier that animals do not die, but reincarnate, and that one of the clones is Conan himself. This medium also convinces him that it is possible to communicate with the afterlife, and through her he begins to talk to dead dogs. This is a path that deepens. It starts in 2017 and by 2020, which is a key year in Milei’s life, he begins to talk to economists and philosophers who are also dead: they are two-way dialogues and he is convinced that these economists push him to get into politics. He even begins to have conversations with God himself; God also encourages him to get involved in politics, he says to defeat evil number one. God told him that in 2023 he was destined to be the president of Argentina.
To Miley you are concerned that your medical history will be revealed: in fact, he and his vice-presidential candidate, Victoria Villarruel, were the only deputies who voted against the digitization of medical records. They also nicknamed him “El Loco” in Chacarita Juniors, when he saved. His father also called him that: he hit him because he said he was crazy and that he had to be straightened out. “Crazy” is the word that scares him the most. Every time he recounts these mystical delusions, he says: “I forbid you to tell it because they are going to say that I am crazy.”
What happens in a world where Trump and Bolsonaro won, where Katz almost won in Chile and Milei won the PASO in our country? Is the world so angry, is the world crazy? Or is it something else? Milei is the expression of a capitalism that changed and gave way to an outsourced economy to whom the hand of the State does not reach. But Milei is also a reaction against feminism. Milei is also, of course, the reaction to the economic disaster and two parties that failed in the Executive. So many buy a speech that says that the State is Evil. In addition to all this, Milei, like all crazy people, has mystique, she screams, she has a rocker look, she tells you about burning the Central Bank and sells magic solutions that connect with the uneasiness of the crisis that Argentina and the world are going through. He proposes himself as Savior and as Messiah, with magical solutions that take root in the collective unconscious of a suffering people. On this you can also see the complaint made by the former militant, Mila Zurbriggen, of La Libertad Avanza, about “messianism” and “sexual favors” within Milei’s party.
We agree that the crisis we are experiencing is desperate. Reality seems to be to drive you crazy or depressed. Society opted for magical solutions in the STEP, or at least seven million people voted for a candidate who says he is going to dollarize and wants to transform public education into a private voucher system, but does not know how to explain how it would work and how would get the laws passed in Congress.
C.hen I was crazy I also wanted to be president of Argentina, but I did not have a great businessman like Eurnekián to support me financially or great media to spread my message of peace and prosperity. Neither, it is fair to say, am I an economist nor do I have an enveloping and irreverent speech like Javier Milei’s. I was just another madman who wanted to be king. Look where I come to coincide with the libertarian candidate: the big difference is that I received and receive psychiatric and psychoanalytic treatment and I was able to admit that he was crazy. What will happen when it inevitably happens that Milei realizes that he wasn’t talking to God or Conan but that he was the victim of his own delusions of grandeur?
I was lucky to have friends and family, who accompany me and accompanied me like a true safety net that stopped me several times while I was falling into my abysses and precipices. I spoke at the beginning of moments of vulnerability that can lead us to madness. Moments that could be those of a duel, in my case the death of my father, the death of my teacher, my grandmother and the suicide of my uncle, all in less than two years. On the other hand, without job stability and without a house, he had the perfect combo of vulnerability to fall into one or another form of madness.
I thought it was El Salvador from Argentina. But the big difference with Javier Milei is that no one, apart from myself, trusted my messianic destiny. With the libertarian candidate, although it would be more fair to say neo-fascist, it is very different, because many people follow him, acclaim him and vote for him. How far will they follow his madness journey? When will the truth of this masked ball be revealed?
*This note was published in Belbo River. Ciro Korol is a writer and screenwriter. He is the author of the series “Monte”, which is broadcast by Paka Paka and of the books “El Anuncio”, “Monte” and “La Rotonda”.
by Ciro Korol
