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Part of the problem is that our culture strongly encourages social contribution and development of identity via social mechanisms. We stigmatize non-contributio
by CuriouslyC 10y ago
Part of the problem is that our culture strongly encourages social contribution and development of identity via social mechanisms. We stigmatize non-contribution and individual identity using labels like crazy, weirdo, freak and degenerate.
Isolating non-conformists wouldn't need medication and therapy if people respected them in the first place.
- mrec 10y agoYeah, that stigma seems to be a relatively recent phenomenon. Reading something like Dickens there's far more tolerance of eccentricity on many axes. (That might be just Dickens himself, of course, but I doubt it.)