Octo-Us

It’s easy to dismiss the fascination with “Octo-Mom,” as the press has dubbed her, as the latest tabloid gossip.

Think about the general criticisms levied at Suleman, the questions hurled in her direction. How could she try to live so far beyond her means?

. You could ask the same questions of the thousands of Americans who have treated their homes like cash machines, who signed onto mortgages they could never hope to repay, whose inflated expectations - at best naïve - seem in retrospect nothing short of self-destructive.

What is Nadya Suleman’s doctor compared to the legions of subprime mortgage lenders who enabled and even encouraged unsustainable excess on a national level?

The questions that we have directed at Suleman, with so much sanctimony, are the questions we should be asking each other - and maybe even ourselves.

This kind of psychological process works not only on the individual level, but also on the level of the community or nation.

in paranoid

and damaging tones.