New Countries and Mental Illness - the connection

New Countries and Mental Illness - the connection

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Historically any new country that was not the result of colonizing of nomadic peoples into a region for finding food sources or other economic factors was the result of social issues on the person who founded it.

1. Moses founded Israel. He was mentally ill, heard the voice of God, and caused riots in Egypt.
2. Jesus the Christ heard the voice of a spirit called "Satan" in the desert and started his own Kingdom of God (the Church) as competition with a morally corrupt Rome. This was the idea of his friend, John the Baptist, who was murdered.
3. Napoleon Bonaparte founded first the Republic of France, then formed an Empire of his own. He suffered from anger-management issues.
4. "Emperor" Norton of San Mateo, CA, was the "First Emperor" of USA; he made his own paper money and founded the Bay Bridge. He suffered from mental illness.
5. Prof. John Nash ("A Beautiful Mind" film/book), a math professor who received a Nobel prize for an economics idea, had mental illness. In the book, he claimed "a new country was being developed and he was the President of Antarctica."
6. The Founding Fathers of the USA - some were mentally ill (Megalomania), and seized the idea that through deception and genocide they could legally form a new country to counter the Empire of England.
7. The Rise of Micronations - most are formed by either rebellious attitudes towards established nations, or excessive creativity. Many are by-products of mental illness (a symptom of mental illness is creativity and not seeing the division between imagination and abstract reality).

M7C, 2011.