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Are the ‘Global Elite’ a Bunch of Extreme Hoarders Killing Us All?
Money and property hoarding are the same — yet money hoarding hurts many more innocent people.
Anyone who’s watched A & E’s “Hoarders” has seen the horrors that can accumulate in a hoarder’s dwelling, from dessicated cat corpses to thousands of swarming rats. Anyone who has read Dickens’ Great Expectations knows that one of literature’s most infamous hoarders, Miss Havisham, never took off her wedding dress, doomed her daughter to a horrible life, and saved her rotten wedding cake for decades before in a fit of madness, she set her hoarder house on fire.
Generally regarded as an expression of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), object or animal hoarding is so disturbing to non-hoarders that although the similarity between financial wealth hoarding and object hoarding is obvious, criteria have been added to the psychological definition of hoarding disorder that preclude wealth accumulation. Specifically, hoarding disorder is defined as a behavior pattern that involves the collection of physical objects which lead to conditions of physical harm and emotional and social deprivation and stress to the hoarder. Only a few discussions and diagnoses include the impact of hoarding on family, neighbors and community even though people watch the shows…
