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The basic lie that psychiatry is based upon, is that there is a sickness where there is suffering. Not neural phenotype, that yes can suffer, but have been use
by Pica_soO 10y ago
The basic lie that psychiatry is based upon, is that there is a sickness where there is suffering.
Not neural phenotype, that yes can suffer, but have been useful for various enterprises and endeavor of humans kind. Manic-Depressive where our "suicidal" explorers, alcoholics stopped us from being nomadic, gays pressured into churches formed the first institutions and created contract security. The list continues near endless.
If psychiatry would be a honest science, it would look upon cause and effect, asking what did this or that creatures side effect accomplish do to pay the ferry-woman. And can we optimize that- can we create creature constellations which produce new ideas like a machine.
But it does not want to know, it wants to heal, which it can not heal as long as it cant resequence DNA in a living human. It doesn't even want to know the possible consequences if it could cure.
Do not interpret this statement as a general dismissive of proper treatment. Treatment of some neuronal constitutions allows some humans to live in this society. But i want to know what society trades personal meh-ness for.
- serge2k 10y agoI honestly have no idea what you are talking about here.
- selimthegrim 10y agoHe's riffing on pop psych theories about the "warrior gene" and suchlike. I'm pretty sure there were institutions predating Holy Mother Church.
- Pica_soO 10y agoDisliking complexity, are we? And having a warrior gene, is actually something worthy of treatment in current society. Warriors, are useless today and will be for the foreseeable time. If there is such a gene, that shapes its owners brain in such a way. But the main point is, that hunting for local optima of personal happiness, is sacrificing the upholding or even gain regarding personal happiness in the future. And psychiatry is neither cartographic why and for what society became composed of what it is and is neither offering constellations society could become. BRB Got to go to Turings Barbershop. Best haircut in the city. Though sometimes conversation gets stuck on who shaves the barber.
- gerby 10y agoMe too.