No one has come to the psychiatric ER saying, "I have have voices in my head telling me they love me and think I am beautiful." By definition, auditory hallucinations are unpleasant. They reinforce negative, critical views of ourselves. When I listen to certain voices in the society, the same ones that talked about "Death Panels" or who ONLY talked about the cost of healthcare reform, not the benefits, I think of a schizophrenic bothered and distracted by negative voices.
We have to learn, as a society, to see these people -- the Glen Becks and the Limbaughs -- as nothing more than a collection of auditory and visual hallucinations that, by definition, pass negative voices into the mind of the society. Hopefully, we can be reached by "talk therapy," but if not, let's try to medicate ourselves as a culture and make the voices go away. Or at the least, we can (like an improved schizophrenic) say:
