“Just imagine. You hear, see, feel and think but no one can see that. You undergo things. You cannot participate in life.”
- Rom Houben, Belgian not-quite-a-coma guy
The story about the Belgian car accident victim who doctors thought was in a coma but wasn’t got me thinking. They now say he was actually conscious the whole 23 years but was suffering from something called “locked-in syndrome.” It’s a condition in which people are unable to speak or move but can think and reason. Doctors didn’t discover it until advanced technology provided him with the equipment to communicate.
But what would it be like if someone, or a whole lot of people, were “locked-in” but with the opposite problem: they could speak or move but were unable to think or reason?
Don’t know about America’s right-wing wacko legions. But it sure explains Glenn Beck.
