“[In] a sharp pivot from decades of cybersecurity policy across Republican and Democratic administrations that … confined offensive cyberoperations to the U.S. military and intelligence agencies,” an August 12th national security memorandum authorized the private sector to engage in such operations, reports the NY Times.
Former officials, security experts and corporate lawyers warn this could lead to provocations, heightened risks and escalating conflicts.
All of which would seem to be the objective of the national security memorandum.
After all, the person who signed it thrives on chaos and conflict — a mentality that psychiatrists see as but one diagnosable point in the wide-ranging spectrum of “Cluster B” disorders. We victims and enablers of the afflicted see them as “Cluster Bombs.”
What’s the full sweep of disorders embedded in — now here’s a bobbydazzler of an oxymoron — the national security memo’s unhinged, reptilian executor?
Therapeutic circles define said unhingement as Chaos Addiction, that being symptomatic of —
High-Conflict Personality Disorder: an inability to conceive constructive ideas; self-aggrandizement; paranoia; refusal to accept personal responsibility; scarcity of impulse control; rage; thin skin.
Borderline Personality Disorder: pleasure derived from high conflict and sustained instability; external chaos distracts from painful internal turmoil; “drama-queening” creates unpredictability and provides a false sense of its control.
Histrionic Personality Disorder: erratic behavior; a desperate need for unceasing attention; closely related to the drama-queen syndrome.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: a developmental flaw often prolonged into adulthood; characterized by disorganized cognition; difficulty staying on task; difficulty learning; inattentiveness; disruptive (erratic) behavior; fraught relationships; if medicinally untreated, dopamine-generation via chaos-creation; dismal job performance.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder: largely self-explanatory: an all-consuming sense of personal superiority yet accompanied by a need for constant, reassuring praise; lack of empathy.
Antisocial Personality Disorder: reinforces high-conflict personality disorder; thrill-seeking satisfied by creating high-risk chaos.
And the sitting president of the United States — the ultimate authority and final say in the nation’s security — is gravely afflicted by every last one of these bloody dreadful disorders.
His memorandum’s new cybersecurity approach poses a “novel” question, says Vanessa Le, a consultant to private firms on geopolitical perils. “Even if [publicly traded companies] engage in ‘hack back’ activities under U.S. government cover or direction, how,” she asks, “will they manage the increased operational risk to their business” — and you?
The answer: They won’t. Because the far-reaching unhingement sitting behind the Resolute Desk has swamped the federal government with like brains of frightful reptilian erraticism, scrambled cognition and dismal, unaccountable job performance marked by extreme inattentiveness.
Which means there will be no competent “U.S. government cover or direction.” There will be an even braver, and sicker, new world.
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