A psychological malady at play

EDITOR – It would have been interesting to hear Sigmund Freud’s take on this one: a professor who thinks he is ab-normal and therefore assumes that every other person is sub-normal and lacking in intellect.

More interesting would have been his psycho-analysis of individuals who eat out of such a professor’s palm and follow his every word blindly.

Nathaniel Moyo better known as Jonathan Moyo (pictured right) fancies himself the grandmaster of the dark art of manipulation.

After fleeing to something like a dog farm - judging from the background howls in one of his recent TV interviews - he wants the world to turn against Zimbabwe’s new administration.

He also wants to influence the vote in this year’s harmonised elections through some funny political project that mimics pan-Africanist virtues.

But guess what? African leaders and the rest of the globe are not as dumb as Jonathan thinks. The world has ample intellects and people who simply know the difference between right and wrong.

You can fool some people all the time or fool all the people sometimes, but you can’t fool all the people all the time. The African Union, United Nations and different governments have endorsed Zimbabwe’s new administration.

Jonathan is trying to venerate himself, thinking he can hoodwink everyone. I’m no Freud - the grandfather of psycho-analysis. However, I deduce a tinge of psychological malady here.

Someone wants to have their way no matter the consequences just like the id in Freud’s three dimensions of the human mind. What is particularly disturbing is how a few others follow such an impulsive being who escalates a personal issue to national level by hook or crook.