Scomotosis

A serious condition caused by chronic climate denial, prevalent in contemporary Australia. Symptoms of Scomotosis include misogynist ranting, compulsive knee jerking, delirium, paranoia, intellectual paralysis, coma and eventual extinction. Scomotosis is severe in Australia, where the Prime Minister, 'ScoMo', has fanatically promoted the mining and burning of coal. The only known cure for Scomotosis is a dose of Climate Truth Serum. Scomotosis can be prevented by social revolution and/or inversion of the dominant paradigm.

ScoMotosis ... dire affliction of pale stale males in situations of positional power without personal/integral power. Diagnosis by observation, of symptoms such as: flight (to Hawaii) response to any challenge (expectation of leadership), incapacity for empathy (despite expensive training), no understanding of the concept of equity, absense of integrity, esteem issues requiring constant reference to a higher authority (particularly a religious leader), belief in imaginary friend/s, and dependence upon the guidance of texts to determine right from wrong (high liklihood that selected texts be centuries-old fables written by barely-educated pale, stale, males seeking to control the uneducated populace).

Further indicators of ScoMotosis are: an inability to acknowledge the greater intellect, knowledge and skills of others (even in their field of expertise), no capacity for understanding scientific & technological communications (perhaps due to a fear-response to proofs contradicting tightly held spurious beliefs), intellectual vertigo (autonomic response to disconcerting facts); and an elevated sense of self-importance.

One of the more obvious indicators can be the obstruction of the mouth by the sufferer's own foot/feet.