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Psychology, reality and Norwegian money

May 18, 2011 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Human psychology is indisputably complex. But it is discoverable. We learn about its structure quite easily once we study it. If a man dominates four mentally challenged women for years, in which he had reduced them to his slaves, he comes to have a psychology characterized by invincibility and chauvinism. His control of those women has driven into his psychology a victory over people. He then conceives of relationships in which he is the hegemonic partner.
When this man meets learned women, he will behave the same way, because this is how his psychology operates. Even though he will get a rude awakening he will not respond to reality because his thoughts are of his own omnipotence and they motivate him. This is the analysis that applies to the PPP leaders, all of them without exception. They live in a false world where they are ensconced in their psychology of greatness. It is a myth, but they cannot comprehend it
Mr. Rohee and President Jagdeo make for easy study. I have already done two essays on Rohee’s mental incapacity to understand how the Canadian Refugee Board can accept an accusation against him without talking to him. No doubt Rohee must have said to himself that he is a Minister of a Caribbean Government and the Canadian investigators will have to speak to him. Mr. Rohee will not accept the fact that the investigators would have researched the exercise of power in Guyana and found what they were looking for
It is the same with President Jagdeo and the vexation he displayed towards the Norwegian Prime Minister over the delay in having the first tranche of the Norwegian LDCS money. Mr. Jagdeo said to himself the same thing Rohee did. Obviously, Mr. Jagdeo wants to know how as President he could be treated this way. Mr. Jagdeo will leave office in a few months’ time and will not, in his capacity as President, receive that first installment
At the psychological level, Mr. Rohee and President Jagdeo are driven by conquest. They can do what they want and they do what they want. The only language they speak is domination. The only relationships they have are one-sided, in which they prevail. But the Canadians and Norwegians, respectively, do not see Rohee and Jagdeo the way they see themselves. Mr. Jagdeo will never accept that the Norwegians have suspicions and reservations about democracy, good governance, transparency and accountability in Guyana.
At the psychological level, Mr. Jagdeo cannot comprehend that, because as President he is a successful exploiter of power where his subjects are content to accept his rule. How then can the Norwegians even attempt to ask questions? In a modern world where mountains of information are received with supersonic speed in seconds, Mr. Jagdeo’s hegemony over his subjects is known to the Norwegians. There is no doubt in my mind that the President has dismissed whatever the PNC and AFC and certain stakeholders have said to the Norwegian delegations that periodically come to assess LCDS progress.
He obviously gives no thought to the assessments of Dr. Janet Bulkan on the pitfalls of his LCDS programme. For him, it is a President versus an ordinary citizen and the Norwegians would not pay any heed to Dr. Bulkan. This is the false world Mr. Jagdeo lives in, brought about by a psychology that has been shaped by success in controlling the people of Guyana. In other words, Mr. Jagdeo doesn’t live in the real world, just like the man who controlled the four women alluded to above.
The reality in Guyana is vastly different from the reality Mr. Jagdeo has in his head. The Norwegians listened to the PNC and AFC when they were here the last time. The Norwegians read people like Dr. Bulkan. What has emerged then is a picture of Guyana that leaves many questions unanswered in the minds of the Norwegians. Two types of realities the Norwegians have accepted about Mr. Jagdeo’s rule. No doubt, misuse of the LCDS funds forms a large part of the picture. The Norwegians want so many safeguards about those funds that it will give Mr. Jagdeo incessant nightmares.
This explains why the money is so difficult to collect. Secondly, the Norwegians are aware that the Jagdeo regime is millions of miles away from the road to transparency. Unfortunately, for Mr. Jagdeo these preoccupations of the Norwegians do not exist. And Mr. Jagdeo honestly believes this in his mind, because his psychology is driven by invincibility and omnipotence. He will leave office and not see a cent of that Norwegian money.

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