A TV series titled Hoarders documents the confusion and chaos generated by a mania for indiscriminately collecting anything and everything.

One particularly shocking episode depicts a hoarder who had a collection of what she said was her mother’s excrement sloshing around in plastic bottles. She herself defecated in a bucket, emptying her excretions into the back yard. The toilet was too clogged to flush.

When shocked interventionists asked her about the revolting smell in her house, she serenely attributed the stench to mold and dust, saying she did not notice any odor. As if the malodorous bottle collection was not horrifying enough, she admitted she had eaten food contaminated with feces over a period of twelve years. She even confessed, before being made to leave her plaguey abode, that she longed for one last contaminated meal.

The problems stemming from her hoarding had become so extensive that the house had to be demolished. It had become a danger to public health.

Any sane person can only regard the woman’s disturbed mental state with a mixture of revulsion and pity. It is a terrible thing to see a human being reduced to such a condition.

The woman suffered mental and spiritual collapse because of a dearth of organizing principles for her life and her household. She had no ontology of value, no concept that some things are worth more than other things. If a Rembrandt were in her house, it had no more worth than her excrement, which she valued more than anything. That was what she paid the most assiduous and constant attention.

Because she had no fixed value system, she had no reference points by which she made rational sense of life and the world. Everything was subjective.

Her condition and the resultant demolition of her house serve as examples for peoples and nations whose deranged pseudo-intellectuals, priests, and apparatchiks have been force-feeding them ideological excrement and calling it beneficial.

America and the West in general have been afflicted for generations by a hoarder mentality, a false ontology and epistemology that........

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