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Of course the #hustle obsessed hacker news crowd would love this title. "Mental illness is fake! Mentally different people are just whiny and inferior, not a le
by honkycat 8y ago
Of course the #hustle obsessed hacker news crowd would love this title. "Mental illness is fake! Mentally different people are just whiny and inferior, not a legitimate illness. Depressed people need to just stop it."
What a load of crap.
This article does a poor job of laying out Szasz's actual beliefs. Szasz sounds like a right-wing wonk and little else.
He has since been proven completely wrong in the 50 years since publication: There is a biological component to mental illness.
It focuses on his persecution complex as a right-wing libertarian in a laregly liberal field.
They bring up the completly irrelevant Semmelweis to attach an air of legitimately to his crackpot beliefs. They do it again with Arendt.
- dang 8y agoCan you please stop posting rants to HN? They're not what this site is for, and you've done it a lot, unfortunately. Your non-rant comments are fine. HN is for intellectual curiosity—see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
- OpenBSD-supreme 8y agoWooo wooo Wooo wooo! dang, the fun police, has arrived!
- austinjp 8y agoPersonally I read their comment as impassioned rather than ranting.
- dang 8y agoWhat I meant is that it was unsubstantive (i.e. contains little information) and calls names. That's what makes it a bad comment for HN.
- golergka 8y agoI have read this comment and I perceive it as a well-argumented, although may be a little bit emotional, critique. It has served my intellectual curiosity. If it had been on a topic that HN has a different consensus (like climate change) it still could've been the top comment, despite the tone.
- honkycat 8y agoThat is a fair criticism. I have a lot going on in my life right now, and some of that stress is leaking out into my social media. I've deleted my twitter recently for similar reasons. If I could scramble my HN username and delete the account, I would do that until I'm in a better place. I will try to do better in the future.