In the political arena, promoting and supporting policies that benefit a small segment of the population while either directly or indirectly disadvantaging or even harming the rest of us or policies and programs designed by a particular political group with the primary (if not exclusive) aim of consolidating and increasing power.Ĭulturally, being intolerant or abusive to people of different ethnic groups, races, skin color or socioeconomic status than ourselves.
In the world of finance, packaging and selling at massive profits debt instruments such as CDO’s (remember the financial crisis?) with the Wall Street fat cats padding their bank accounts while the rest of us on main street take it on the chin when the house of cards comes tumbling down. In the corporate world, CEOs and corporate officers that are paid multimillion-dollar salaries in addition to stock options, and shareholders that are highly rewarded while the workers are paid by the hour with little or no recognition or appreciation and minimal additional financial compensation. The overriding characteristic of this syndrome is “I will live by the credo that I will do whatever I want whenever I want no matter the consequences to our country, the environment or the rest of the world.” I propose that there is a noninfectious (though highly infiltrative) nationwide plague that we have been suffering from for at least the last 20 years which I will label as the “me, myself and I” syndrome. The one I like best is “disastrous evil or affliction.” Interestingly, the Merriam-Webster thesaurus cites over 100 synonyms for plague. The recent COVID pandemic might be considered a type of plague even though it’s viral rather than bacterial. The dictionary definition of plague is a contagious bacterial disease characterized by fever and delirium associated with inflamed, swollen lymph nodes, (coined “buboes” during the bubonic plague many centuries ago).
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