David Brooks's Anosognosia
Submitted by Aaron Barlow on January 11, 2011 - 05:38In his column today, David Brooks diagnoses Jared Lee Loughner:
He appeared to have a poor sense of his own illness (part of a condition known as anosognosia). He had increasingly frequent run-ins with the police. In short, the evidence before us suggests that Loughner was locked in a world far removed from politics as we normally understand it.
Maybe so... but, Mr. Brooks, maybe you do, too... 'have a poor sense' of your own 'illness,' that is.