“Similarly, without the black hand of depression pulling us down, we would not know we are depressed to begin with.”
This is a tautology. Depression sounds like a label invented to alakazam itself into existence or a disease invented to sell a cure.
“Nevertheless, psychiatrists approach the mental in a similar way doctors approach the physical.”
Except psychiatrists are obligated to violate their hippocratic oath. Psychiatry is not a medical discipline, it’s the science of coercion; it just wears a nice labcoat to lend itself legitimacy, and to aid its mission to fund lavish lifestyles for its practitioners and advocates at the expense of its victims. Fake it ’til you make it, right?
“Psychopathology, in this view, is considered cured only once the symptoms are no longer present, and both patient and therapist alike *often* [emphasis added] consider the absence of symptoms to be representative of mental health.”
So if the “patient” and the psychiatrist only sometimes disagree about the goals of “treatment” then it’s not inherently objectifying. If someone wants to voluntarily submit to a psychiatrist’s crackpottery despite the long track record of abuses I would in a perfect world have the courage to warn them. However I do agree that they should be allowed to make a personal choice to access psychiatry. The primary problem is the suppression of information about its failures and the lack of education in general about its inadequacy to assist anyone in a bigger way than pushing ineffective drugs which cause “symptoms” worse than those they treat, which… *surprise,* the solution is more ineffective drugs which cause “symptoms” worse than those they treat, which……. etc, etc. One secondary problem is that when psychiatry is used as a form of intervention by the government it violates the principle of separation of church and state because psychiatry operates as a satanic religion willing to sacrifice anybody and anything on the bloody altar of cold, hard cash.
“It is precisely this type of distress that I find surface psychology can help alleviate, as there is no root cause to be uncovered, no depth to be explored. Examples of this include the burnt out college student, the stressed out parent, or the anxious teenager. Such individuals are simply experiencing what we might call “problems of living”, and may benefit greatly from learning to manage their symptoms until their stressful situation has passed.”
This is invisible hand, ghost-in-the-machine thinking. No suffering simply “exists.” (There is a cause that needs to be demystified.) My view is that political economy is the science of human happiness. People need to start blaming our politicians for all of our problems because their ineffectiveness/unwillingness/inability (it probably doesn’t matter whether the cat is white or black) to write better laws that serve our society cause these problems. We should be organizing letter-writing campaigns to our politicians to complain about the harms of “care” just like Reagan did. Otherwise study Buddhist philosophy. Free books about Buddhism mailed to your door if you visit budaedu.org by the way. (Personally I am on a hiatus from studying politics and religion due to the high levels of stress. Maybe someone else who’s more grounded than I am can cross these bridges safely.)
“Yet as long as we continue to embrace the fantasy of a scientific approach to the psyche, no such thing is possible.” I disagree. The writings of Lyndon LaRouche on creativity and the nature of the human mind are a case in point. Science is intrinsically subjective and the ability to turn one’s thought processes inward upon themselves is how to achieve higher levels of thinking. The problem isn’t developing a scientific approach to the psyche because Lyndon LaRouche and his predecessors and associates have accomplished exactly that. Rather, the problem is modern, reductionistic, positivist science and its adherents who want to assign linear models to non-linear phenomena such as human creativity for reactionary purposes of convenience, and to hell with the tears and blood shed.
I liked some of your points but these are a few bones I had to pick.
Books are alive in the same way that you and I are alive, and by accessing the writings of “dead” thinkers we act on the past simultaneously by allowing them to act on us presently when we re-create their original discoveries in our own thinking processes. It is literally a method of resurrection. Reading is a door of access to time travel outside the ordinary (habitual) passage of seemingly discrete chronologically-‘arranged’ moments; reading is a dharma door just as much as entheogens or sleep deprivation can be depending on set and setting.
Imagery is only one form of imagination, anyone can have pre-conscious sensory experiences or extra-sensory experiences of any type because the doors of consciousness are infinite. You might want to read up on synesthesia, which it surprises me you don’t know about considering how often you blubber on about “hallucinogens,” which is a misnomer because the real hallucination is the before/after dualism in relation to the entheogenic catalyst of relatively unusual “states” of consciousness. (Discussing states of consciousness is improper terminology because it implies a static existence of a discrete alteration to a singular dialectical process so it’s meta-redundant.) Terrence McKenna agreed with you that words are like water which doesn’t wet the ducks’ feathers.
I think you’re more right than wrong about the natures of thinking and imagination but still guilty of errorism, bhagavante.
By the way, completing suicide won’t kill time; only your body’s relationship to time as you know it. Read the Katha Upanishad if you want a guide that will teach you how to destroy time.
Who can be bothered to do that… you and I both, apparently. Your panoramic perspective has a few blind spots.
You’re a skillful writer and if you read more books it will help you cultivate your talents.
As Alan Watts said, the teeth can’t bite themselves o mahasattva, great unconditioned one.
Pax
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Why not??? Obviously because it will undercut the foundations of corruption which psychiatry is built upon. People might actually recover instead of remaining professional patients on the psychiatry plantation!!!
It’s in my cart on abebooks. Can’t wait to read it. (One of the books I’m currently reading is Psychiatry Under the Influence. Thanks MIA for all of the reading material suggestions!!)
Jasmine,
You can thank the legacy of the heinous John Dewey for some aspects of your experience. What happened is that an iron-willed antithesis to fascism in Europe was needed by the autocrats so they decided that “including” people in pseudo-democratic control psyops was the easiest way to brainwash us, by involving us in processes the violate our own fundamental interests. Maybe some of your handlers’ intentions were good to help you develop a healthy eating regimen but it sounds like you were dehumanized and violated and I am with you in spirit.
P.S. it is true that every cultural revolution begins in the mind of one person first. Every scientific discovery happens in the thought process of one individual before it spreads to the rest of his society in wave phases, or dies in the ground like an old seed (contingent upon causes and conditions.) Power to you.
I have been receiving intensive “dialectical behavioral therapy” for a month now and my general impression is that, like rewriting the lives of revolutionary leaders to make them palatable to liberals and denaturing their core values in the process, DBT has completely corroded dialectics to make it “pragmatic” and serve neoliberal interests. For example the idea that there is a static reality which cannot be changed is metaphysical, not dialectical. To hell with “radical acceptance.” I am in favor of radical negation! The power of negativity can be an optimistic force for the becoming of Good!
I love your vision of human-centered therapy rooted in compassion and a holistic view of human becomings vis a vis the animalizing nature of The Beast as most of us here in MIA know him. Yea, I hold the conviction that psychiatry is an anti-Christ. Call an exorcist! (Keep posting wonderful articles which shed light upon darkness, that is. Your contributors are a special, secular priesthood of an extraordinary type.)
We need radical changes because desperate times call for deperate measures. Blessed are the one-way ticket holders on the peace train. No son will stop our choo choo train, to hell with televised visions and illuminatus sigils. (Playboy Carti wrote a song about me called Evil J0rdan.) All aboard.
I don’t eat pork anymore. Gave it up. I still want a porkchop off of the pig, but I won’t eat it myself. I want some candied turkey bacon instead. Maybe a hot cup of mint tea to go with it.
Nice poetry though. You see through my transparency. That’s not exactly a skill though because I’m very 2-dimensional. Self-imposed exile is an accurate way of describing my experience, yes. The Bhagavad Gita says a yogi sees no difference between a dog, a dog eater, and a saint. The Sanskrit word for dog eater also means outcaste. We’ve dug my grave together, I’m more than capable of burying myself alone. Or maybe I dug my grave alone and we can bury me together. Welcome to the zombie apocalypse.
This would be easily solved if there were designated spaces for drug users to explore consciousness safely. You’re pinning the blame on individuals instead of the DEA who are ultimately responsible if you can think in a structural way instead of relying on neoliberal individualist cultural conditioning to teach you who to hate. (Then again, I rely on my own conditioning to teach me who to hate, too.) Read Strategic Suicide. The DEA has known exactly what they are doing this entire time, their goal is to intensify psychosocial slavery and increase drug addiction because it gives their violent acts legitimacy. Do you think this is true for individuals too? All I want to say is that there are proper contexts for drug use and if these contexts aren’t accessible then the consequences will be catastrophic for both drug users and people who do not use drugs. This is quite a moderate position to be frank because it will lessen the suffering in the world, whether you agree with drug use ideologically or not. Another possible solution is to give sensitivity training and drug addiction treatment training to people who don’t use drugs. You think this is enabling us? Harm reduction is a common sense approach. Americans like drugs. Blame television, blame music, blame popular culture. Don’t blame the ones who suffer without respite because if you’re trapped in a flaming building you’ll either jump and fly or crash and burn.
Marcuse was funded by the Rockefeller foundation. Would you kindly suggest more of Rockefeller’s writings please?
Engagement is a healthy form of non-violent self-defense. Constructive criticism and self-criticism are powerful tools for growth. It only works if we don’t view each other as enemies, though. If we view each other as enemies then you’re probably better off hanging garlic over your bed and purchasing an iron crucifix.
I think we should replace police sirens with dolphin noises and whale songs. And I think we should replace police with khudai khidmatgars. This makes me look insane to all upholders of the fourth-reich.
This is what Discordianism does to someone’s thinking process. “Is it a satire disguised as a religion or a religion disguised as a satire?” I am a very serious and sincere, if immature, person. Life isn’t much fun without humor. Turns out I’m the joke. Which fnords like the punchline of a tragedy! Nope, just manic depression. Sure, life is like The Truman Show more often than not. Has a lot to do with my main character syndrome. I’m an angry loser with a lot of resentment against the world and myself.
Anyways, thanks for your condolences. They have a lovely family.
I don’t know what that means! Clearly it spoke to my shame. I shouldn’t confess my sins to people, only to God, but I am a man of bad choices so I will share with you that I have a sister who miscarried and I was a very irresponsible drug user at the time. I don’t know what to tell you. It’s heartbreaking and it’s probably mostly my fault. I have to live with that. Worse, others have to live with that. Having said so, perhaps ignoring us aliens is the best course of action if you don’t want the disturbance in your field of vision. See no evil, and all of that. Still, I think I should be able to say what I want and if I have some way to relate then I will volunteer what information I have in the hopes that someone else can learn from my dysphoric misexperiences of extreme consciousness. Learn more from your enemies than your friends, etc. Thankfully there is a lot of geographic and emotional distance between myself and my sister’s family at this time. Hopefully this helps.
Someone in his left mind might think powerful substances can induce autopsychognosia or mediate contact with dead ancestors and other entities. (Gandhi warned against the futility of these contacts btw.) The Shaivite might think that any drug is like a knife which in the hands of a surgeon has a different use-value than it does in the hands of a rogue. Maybe these are just the exceptionally self-centered fantasies of another idiot savant. If so, contact your representatives and demand they support the funding of classical education in public schools. Anyways, see the writings of Kafkalides, Hausner, Dobkin de Rios, Furst, Leary, Wasson, Charles Tart, Stanislav Grof, et al for more information. Also see Mike Crowley’s Secret Drugs of Buddhism.
Maybe this is why strict nuns used to slap us filthy left-handers with rulers before my generation.
Comparing psychiatric poisons to empathogens or entheogens as a wave-phase of the war-peace talisman isn’t very funny. I’m too jaded to appreciate the gravity of your comment.
Sincerely, Stupid Narcissist aka Gandhi Stalinist
P.S. Effect versus affect distinction is so hard to remember!!!
Hi,
Sorry, I perhaps wrongly assumed that you were mocking me for my stated position. I have started the documentary you suggested and it appears much worse than I realized. I’ll finish it today, it’s very heartbreaking so far. Let me know if you have any others to recommend.
You know who has unsuccessfully attempted to separate industry from commodification? The fabian anarchists of the United States post-industrial society service-economy war machine, with their economic sanctions against DPRC and their media malignity, which have failed to break the steel-spirits of Coreans in the northern half of the peninsula. Inspiring! Heartwarming! I can learn a lot from the benevolence and mercy of Friendly Father Kim Jong Un if I read about his heroism instead of filling my head with liberal propaganda. I can learn a lot from the fraternity of the Coreans under Son of the Corean People KJU.
End cultural imperialism! Bosintang is Corean heritage! End the persecution of bosintang eaters in Corea!
The works on physical economy of Lyndon LaRouche are very important. Environmentalism is a pro-genocide Malthusian conspiracy to limit population. The truth is that the more people who are born, if they are given the resources necessary to enhance the creativity of their minds and the ability to effect scientific discoveries, which is the real meaning of freedom, then the more people we produce the greater is the likelihood that they will effect discoveries to avert disaster. Human beings are a resource, not a liability. I agree that we need to start treating human beings as such. However there are no limits to growth. Pretending otherwise is an excuse to deprive poor villagers in Africa of their only energy sources, that is the practical effect of most environmentalist propaganda. We need to export our modern technologies to eradicate poverty because economic development is the new name for peace.
President Lincoln knew that labor precedes capital and thus should be given priority over capital. He wanted every worker to have a home. And they don’t want us to know that he, too, was a Bolshevik. (Mao Zedong: Land to the Tillers.) He said that right makes might.
(This comment is like a flat line pointing at a rainbow instead of following the gradient.)
There’s a controversial CBC show called Kim’s Convenience (pro-Israel propaganda) and the father says that Corea used to be spelled with a ‘C’ and now it’s spelled with a ‘K’ because of Japanese imperialism.
So now I spell it with a ‘C’ because I think the original Mean Girls is a very funny and true movie.
There’s a Charlie Brown comic and the text says “if you want to get any joy out of being depressed you have to put your head down and sulk like this.” I tried to find the original but the search engine really wants me to know that it’s not ok to be a whiney sadboye when you’re a grown ass man, but I’m sure someone else can locate it more easily.
Perhaps culturally the psychosocial effects of trauma from events like the invasions of Corea or Vietnam are macrocosmic similitudes of the kind of cyclical suffering which results when one person inflicts traumatic stress on another person. Diane Sare wrote that perhaps the invasion of Vietnam was not about Vietnam at all, but about getting America to do something so evil that no amount of miracles will wash the white wool clean. In that sense it’s similar to how Lyndon LaRouche described Adolf Hitler as a Dionysian. The Apples of Apollo as I remember it has an interesting exploration of the Dionysian perspective on Christianity.
I used to want to write a book called America: A Case Study in State Narcissism.
Americans really need to be taught the works of Ho Chi Minh to understand how French imperialism destroyed Vietnam and why the American reaction against their independence was criminal rather than heroic. IIRC Anthony Bourdain wrote anecdotally that Ho Chi Minh was a cook in Escoffier’s kitchen, which is fascinating if true.
Are you Kevin Smith of Dogma fame? My Dad is your biggest fan, will you give him an internship at one of your companies? He hates his job working in banking/credit.
Thanks for your enormously insightful posturing, your sincerity touches my heart. I will watch the documentary and I do appreciate the extra context despite my bitter sarcasm.
The effects of war can last generations but it isn’t necessary that they do. Perhaps empathogens have a place in highly-regulated contexts to relieve the associated traumas. Reparations to Pyongyang from USA and Japan is a good start. Also if someone establishes a non-profit religious organization to recognize Friendly Father Kim Jong-Un as The Living Buddha Maitteya in a patriotic ceremony, that’s a wonderful gesture for peace.
The U.S. military and the police also function this way. Whatever happened to “that we go not out in search of monsters to destroy.” And yet I’m targeted because I’m the one who’s supposedly not patriotic enough. My stone heart weeps blood for Palestine and Friendly Father Kim Jong-Un. What are supposed to do? Listen to Irish Gaelic hymns and rebel songs until the sky falls? ……
Flotillas of spaceships headed where? Or remaining here… I don’t know whether it’s safer to frantically act with no determined direction or to sit still. I do know I overextend myself and work too hard but taking it easy isn’t in the cards for me, just like it wasn’t in the cards for Terra Treasure. Difference is I need to teach myself to stop undoing their work, telling myself I’m the same when I’m really far out of my depths. Nausea is a cancerous pit in the center of my stomach.
Thanks for sharing. Did they diagnose you with temporal lobe epilepsy? If you have religious visions, you might be called epileptic by the antitheists. Or psychotic, or whatever else. Or satanic by some theists. It’s a question of taxonomy, maybe. Or theology. What is science, anyways?
Thanks for your insights about the future having Good in it.
I appreciate and agree with your perspective. Isn’t it dangerous to share these thoughts publicly? Our entire economy is built on “services” provided domestically at high cost to other nations. The fact we call ourselves their allies is a sad joke. American leaders have sold us out — we are now a parasite-country, and parasitic people are only microcosms of the national culture which recursively scapegoats, feeding the cycle of violence.
They’re coming to kill me because I won’t shut up about world peace. Isn’t it true that all of our lives are on loan from GOD? Isn’t it true that every communist is on death row from the very moment of his first awakening? Maybe I’ll never be a martyr, maybe I was always a tragedy. Maybe I’ll never be a comedian. I don’t think my life ever had value so I’m ready to die frankly. America is a dictatorship of the old against the young, of the established against the new, etc.
“Persons with childhood trauma were more likely to bear a diagnosis of all of the studied conditions: cancer, myocardial infarction, diabetes, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, depression, and anxiety disorders. All of these associations were stronger in younger persons, regardless of the nature of childhood trauma.”
Jeez, thanks for the panic attack. I keep wondering if I should call 911 just in case everything I relate to about physical conditions is true and the people around me are wrong that I am paranoid. But that’s something I shouldn’t do, right? I don’t trust the hospitals or the ambulances anyways. Might as well just wait impatiently for the prince of darkness to collect me of his own volition. Right? I don’t truly have a say in my own healthcare, that’s just a platitude invented by human relations executives.
One line of thinking goes that the larger geopolitical context of the Russian military operation is the 2014 American Rainbow Revolution / Maidan coup in Ukraine, which infringed upon Russia’s legitimate security interests. How can our leaders expect individual consumers of “services” provided by mental health ideology cultists to accept personal responsibility for our acts of interpersonal destruction when our military-industrial bureacratic synarchs don’t accept social responsibility for tyrannical acts of genocidal spycraft? Russia and Ukraine are only proxies for spiritual conflicts happening within the corrupt hearts of individual Americans, so is world war three another wave-phase of the Book of Enoch?
This is why I say there’s a twin-mountain on our backs and that mountain is cultural imperialism and that mountain is psychiatry. The angels Gabriel and Moroni want to help us smash that mountain.
Smedley Butler was an isolationist but he wrote an interesring essay called War Is A Racket. Who is ultimately responsible for the cycle of violence? It’s a question of who has the willpower to act upon the necessity for change. Whoever demonstrates himself capable of leading us all beyond this punctum saliens to a higher form of civilization on earth deserves to be president of a republic on Mars.
Dan,
Do you really think those societies are truly disconnected from the industrial revolutions of the past and present in a world where contact between peoples is instantaneous thanks to cellular technology? Autarchy is an interesting concept but I don’t know of any nation on the planet that has successfully achieved it in practice. Maybe some smaller utopian communities are completely self-sufficient. Enlighten me!
May I suggest a feature for this website here? I would like an “applause” button or a “congratulations” button. Sometimes I don’t have any productive comments but I like an article enough to want to simply say “thanks!”
Basic human kindness isn’t common sense anymore because we’re living on the cusp of an anti-renaissance. Some of us have lost touch with our humanity, our hearts have turned to stone because of repeated ostracization experiences or other traumas. We need extra help and excluding us because we’re evil doesn’t serve the goal of interesting us in the inherent dignity of others. I for one appreciate this article and its critical perspective because I’m a morally retarded, paranoid narcissist.
I love this article. You have successfully deconstructed psychiatry according to its own disordered discontinuum, turned it right-side up in a way that is both precise and concise. This is so much cooler than what Marx did to Hegel. We need classical education brought back into our schools so that all of us are able to respond in such a critically constructive way to counterfeits of leadership. I think your article reflects a high degree of understanding of romantic versus scientific outlook and I aspire to your level of clarity.
This is false information. Read W. Allen Salisbury’s volume The Civil War and the American System. President Abraham Lincoln was a correspondent with Karl Marx, who held a personal grudge against Henry C. Carey. The issue with dogmatic Marxism is that it does not take into account technological advancement. Rosa Luxemburg corrected this problem, read her doctoral thesis called The Industrial Development of Poland.
Also see Nancy Spannaus, The Political Economy of the American Revolution.
The American war of independence was the first anti-colonial uprising. Read Lenin’s Letter to the American Worker and his tome against Malthusianism. Both communists and industrial capitalists are supposed to be anti-Malthusian.
Specifically loot-and-steal parasitical capitalism contra American-style Whig Republican Industrial Capitalism. Of course, dogmatic Marxists make no distinction because they are viewed as two aspects of one process.
See the writings of Henry Carey, Henry Clay, Peshine Smith, Friedrich List et al. Also Lenin’s monumental work on Imperialism, and Kwame Nkrumah’s book Neo-Colonialism.
Read Cusanus’ essay On Learned Ignorance for a theological exploration of this question. I myself need another copy. I can’t get enough of that book, every re-read brings me to a higher understanding of my own uniqueness as a Human Being created imago viva dei. We are all blessed to live in the same historical epoch as a genius such as Nicholaus of Cusa and His brilliance continues to shine a scintillating light upon the darkness of present-day humankind, myself included. Never enough thanks or praise for His wonderful contributions.
See Lenin’s pamphlet on Leftism: An Infantile Disorder and the writings of Mao Zedong on the mass line. Leftism is adventurism/extremism, it is actually anti-collectivist and feeds neoliberal reaction by demanding too much progress too rapidly. (I should know.)
The left-right dichotomy only exists to divide us. We need a union based on the common human essence and a recognition that the Human Becoming is capable to eternally enhance the creativity of His mind and the Beauty of His Soul, and recognition that the laws of the human mind are in cohesion with the laws of the living universe, which is constantly moving to higher levels of order. (Helga Zepp LaRouche and Lyndon LaRouche.)
I like to say: laissez-faire? More like lies al-Shaytan. (I should know.)
Vladimir Vernadsky’s concept of the noösphere comes to mind.
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“Similarly, without the black hand of depression pulling us down, we would not know we are depressed to begin with.”
This is a tautology. Depression sounds like a label invented to alakazam itself into existence or a disease invented to sell a cure.
“Nevertheless, psychiatrists approach the mental in a similar way doctors approach the physical.”
Except psychiatrists are obligated to violate their hippocratic oath. Psychiatry is not a medical discipline, it’s the science of coercion; it just wears a nice labcoat to lend itself legitimacy, and to aid its mission to fund lavish lifestyles for its practitioners and advocates at the expense of its victims. Fake it ’til you make it, right?
“Psychopathology, in this view, is considered cured only once the symptoms are no longer present, and both patient and therapist alike *often* [emphasis added] consider the absence of symptoms to be representative of mental health.”
So if the “patient” and the psychiatrist only sometimes disagree about the goals of “treatment” then it’s not inherently objectifying. If someone wants to voluntarily submit to a psychiatrist’s crackpottery despite the long track record of abuses I would in a perfect world have the courage to warn them. However I do agree that they should be allowed to make a personal choice to access psychiatry. The primary problem is the suppression of information about its failures and the lack of education in general about its inadequacy to assist anyone in a bigger way than pushing ineffective drugs which cause “symptoms” worse than those they treat, which… *surprise,* the solution is more ineffective drugs which cause “symptoms” worse than those they treat, which……. etc, etc. One secondary problem is that when psychiatry is used as a form of intervention by the government it violates the principle of separation of church and state because psychiatry operates as a satanic religion willing to sacrifice anybody and anything on the bloody altar of cold, hard cash.
“It is precisely this type of distress that I find surface psychology can help alleviate, as there is no root cause to be uncovered, no depth to be explored. Examples of this include the burnt out college student, the stressed out parent, or the anxious teenager. Such individuals are simply experiencing what we might call “problems of living”, and may benefit greatly from learning to manage their symptoms until their stressful situation has passed.”
This is invisible hand, ghost-in-the-machine thinking. No suffering simply “exists.” (There is a cause that needs to be demystified.) My view is that political economy is the science of human happiness. People need to start blaming our politicians for all of our problems because their ineffectiveness/unwillingness/inability (it probably doesn’t matter whether the cat is white or black) to write better laws that serve our society cause these problems. We should be organizing letter-writing campaigns to our politicians to complain about the harms of “care” just like Reagan did. Otherwise study Buddhist philosophy. Free books about Buddhism mailed to your door if you visit budaedu.org by the way. (Personally I am on a hiatus from studying politics and religion due to the high levels of stress. Maybe someone else who’s more grounded than I am can cross these bridges safely.)
“Yet as long as we continue to embrace the fantasy of a scientific approach to the psyche, no such thing is possible.” I disagree. The writings of Lyndon LaRouche on creativity and the nature of the human mind are a case in point. Science is intrinsically subjective and the ability to turn one’s thought processes inward upon themselves is how to achieve higher levels of thinking. The problem isn’t developing a scientific approach to the psyche because Lyndon LaRouche and his predecessors and associates have accomplished exactly that. Rather, the problem is modern, reductionistic, positivist science and its adherents who want to assign linear models to non-linear phenomena such as human creativity for reactionary purposes of convenience, and to hell with the tears and blood shed.
I liked some of your points but these are a few bones I had to pick.
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Books are alive in the same way that you and I are alive, and by accessing the writings of “dead” thinkers we act on the past simultaneously by allowing them to act on us presently when we re-create their original discoveries in our own thinking processes. It is literally a method of resurrection. Reading is a door of access to time travel outside the ordinary (habitual) passage of seemingly discrete chronologically-‘arranged’ moments; reading is a dharma door just as much as entheogens or sleep deprivation can be depending on set and setting.
Imagery is only one form of imagination, anyone can have pre-conscious sensory experiences or extra-sensory experiences of any type because the doors of consciousness are infinite. You might want to read up on synesthesia, which it surprises me you don’t know about considering how often you blubber on about “hallucinogens,” which is a misnomer because the real hallucination is the before/after dualism in relation to the entheogenic catalyst of relatively unusual “states” of consciousness. (Discussing states of consciousness is improper terminology because it implies a static existence of a discrete alteration to a singular dialectical process so it’s meta-redundant.) Terrence McKenna agreed with you that words are like water which doesn’t wet the ducks’ feathers.
I think you’re more right than wrong about the natures of thinking and imagination but still guilty of errorism, bhagavante.
By the way, completing suicide won’t kill time; only your body’s relationship to time as you know it. Read the Katha Upanishad if you want a guide that will teach you how to destroy time.
Who can be bothered to do that… you and I both, apparently. Your panoramic perspective has a few blind spots.
You’re a skillful writer and if you read more books it will help you cultivate your talents.
As Alan Watts said, the teeth can’t bite themselves o mahasattva, great unconditioned one.
Pax
Disclaimer: This comment is a bunch of horseshit. I stand by every word.
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Why not??? Obviously because it will undercut the foundations of corruption which psychiatry is built upon. People might actually recover instead of remaining professional patients on the psychiatry plantation!!!
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Thanks for the good advice.
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It’s in my cart on abebooks. Can’t wait to read it. (One of the books I’m currently reading is Psychiatry Under the Influence. Thanks MIA for all of the reading material suggestions!!)
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Jasmine,
You can thank the legacy of the heinous John Dewey for some aspects of your experience. What happened is that an iron-willed antithesis to fascism in Europe was needed by the autocrats so they decided that “including” people in pseudo-democratic control psyops was the easiest way to brainwash us, by involving us in processes the violate our own fundamental interests. Maybe some of your handlers’ intentions were good to help you develop a healthy eating regimen but it sounds like you were dehumanized and violated and I am with you in spirit.
https://youtu.be/QNJL6nfu__Q?si=5m3fnDNXJswZIAgA
Best Wishes,
Not Anonymous
P.S. it is true that every cultural revolution begins in the mind of one person first. Every scientific discovery happens in the thought process of one individual before it spreads to the rest of his society in wave phases, or dies in the ground like an old seed (contingent upon causes and conditions.) Power to you.
Mac
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I have been receiving intensive “dialectical behavioral therapy” for a month now and my general impression is that, like rewriting the lives of revolutionary leaders to make them palatable to liberals and denaturing their core values in the process, DBT has completely corroded dialectics to make it “pragmatic” and serve neoliberal interests. For example the idea that there is a static reality which cannot be changed is metaphysical, not dialectical. To hell with “radical acceptance.” I am in favor of radical negation! The power of negativity can be an optimistic force for the becoming of Good!
I love your vision of human-centered therapy rooted in compassion and a holistic view of human becomings vis a vis the animalizing nature of The Beast as most of us here in MIA know him. Yea, I hold the conviction that psychiatry is an anti-Christ. Call an exorcist! (Keep posting wonderful articles which shed light upon darkness, that is. Your contributors are a special, secular priesthood of an extraordinary type.)
We need radical changes because desperate times call for deperate measures. Blessed are the one-way ticket holders on the peace train. No son will stop our choo choo train, to hell with televised visions and illuminatus sigils. (Playboy Carti wrote a song about me called Evil J0rdan.) All aboard.
https://youtu.be/crbFmpezO4A?si=WYlWni6FHJWYAkNP
https://youtu.be/Pca2l_2hDb8?si=CgNKns6bOI70pqcK
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https://youtu.be/fofsNJqfYjg?si=RoFNYDSTKNxk1kHi
The river of Jordan is muddy and cold, it chills the body but not the soul. (My middle name is Jordan so this song speaks to me transpersonally.)
Peace be upon you, my Brother.
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Dang, and here I thought you hated me.
A good text is The Vimalakirti Sutra. He’s not 2d, he’s pandimensional! Not sure if there’s an audiobook available.
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Thank you, I’ll try taking that to the heart. My dad is very easy-going so I don’t know why it skipped me.
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I don’t eat pork anymore. Gave it up. I still want a porkchop off of the pig, but I won’t eat it myself. I want some candied turkey bacon instead. Maybe a hot cup of mint tea to go with it.
Nice poetry though. You see through my transparency. That’s not exactly a skill though because I’m very 2-dimensional. Self-imposed exile is an accurate way of describing my experience, yes. The Bhagavad Gita says a yogi sees no difference between a dog, a dog eater, and a saint. The Sanskrit word for dog eater also means outcaste. We’ve dug my grave together, I’m more than capable of burying myself alone. Or maybe I dug my grave alone and we can bury me together. Welcome to the zombie apocalypse.
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This would be easily solved if there were designated spaces for drug users to explore consciousness safely. You’re pinning the blame on individuals instead of the DEA who are ultimately responsible if you can think in a structural way instead of relying on neoliberal individualist cultural conditioning to teach you who to hate. (Then again, I rely on my own conditioning to teach me who to hate, too.) Read Strategic Suicide. The DEA has known exactly what they are doing this entire time, their goal is to intensify psychosocial slavery and increase drug addiction because it gives their violent acts legitimacy. Do you think this is true for individuals too? All I want to say is that there are proper contexts for drug use and if these contexts aren’t accessible then the consequences will be catastrophic for both drug users and people who do not use drugs. This is quite a moderate position to be frank because it will lessen the suffering in the world, whether you agree with drug use ideologically or not. Another possible solution is to give sensitivity training and drug addiction treatment training to people who don’t use drugs. You think this is enabling us? Harm reduction is a common sense approach. Americans like drugs. Blame television, blame music, blame popular culture. Don’t blame the ones who suffer without respite because if you’re trapped in a flaming building you’ll either jump and fly or crash and burn.
Marcuse was funded by the Rockefeller foundation. Would you kindly suggest more of Rockefeller’s writings please?
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Engagement is a healthy form of non-violent self-defense. Constructive criticism and self-criticism are powerful tools for growth. It only works if we don’t view each other as enemies, though. If we view each other as enemies then you’re probably better off hanging garlic over your bed and purchasing an iron crucifix.
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I think we should replace police sirens with dolphin noises and whale songs. And I think we should replace police with khudai khidmatgars. This makes me look insane to all upholders of the fourth-reich.
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This is what Discordianism does to someone’s thinking process. “Is it a satire disguised as a religion or a religion disguised as a satire?” I am a very serious and sincere, if immature, person. Life isn’t much fun without humor. Turns out I’m the joke. Which fnords like the punchline of a tragedy! Nope, just manic depression. Sure, life is like The Truman Show more often than not. Has a lot to do with my main character syndrome. I’m an angry loser with a lot of resentment against the world and myself.
Anyways, thanks for your condolences. They have a lovely family.
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I don’t know what that means! Clearly it spoke to my shame. I shouldn’t confess my sins to people, only to God, but I am a man of bad choices so I will share with you that I have a sister who miscarried and I was a very irresponsible drug user at the time. I don’t know what to tell you. It’s heartbreaking and it’s probably mostly my fault. I have to live with that. Worse, others have to live with that. Having said so, perhaps ignoring us aliens is the best course of action if you don’t want the disturbance in your field of vision. See no evil, and all of that. Still, I think I should be able to say what I want and if I have some way to relate then I will volunteer what information I have in the hopes that someone else can learn from my dysphoric misexperiences of extreme consciousness. Learn more from your enemies than your friends, etc. Thankfully there is a lot of geographic and emotional distance between myself and my sister’s family at this time. Hopefully this helps.
Sincerely, Selfish White Dog
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Someone in his left mind might think powerful substances can induce autopsychognosia or mediate contact with dead ancestors and other entities. (Gandhi warned against the futility of these contacts btw.) The Shaivite might think that any drug is like a knife which in the hands of a surgeon has a different use-value than it does in the hands of a rogue. Maybe these are just the exceptionally self-centered fantasies of another idiot savant. If so, contact your representatives and demand they support the funding of classical education in public schools. Anyways, see the writings of Kafkalides, Hausner, Dobkin de Rios, Furst, Leary, Wasson, Charles Tart, Stanislav Grof, et al for more information. Also see Mike Crowley’s Secret Drugs of Buddhism.
Maybe this is why strict nuns used to slap us filthy left-handers with rulers before my generation.
Comparing psychiatric poisons to empathogens or entheogens as a wave-phase of the war-peace talisman isn’t very funny. I’m too jaded to appreciate the gravity of your comment.
Sincerely, Stupid Narcissist aka Gandhi Stalinist
P.S. Effect versus affect distinction is so hard to remember!!!
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Sounds like a dream. Maybe next year I could be in a position to attend, if it happens again. Not in the cards for me at this time.
Thanks for sharing your story.
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Hi,
Sorry, I perhaps wrongly assumed that you were mocking me for my stated position. I have started the documentary you suggested and it appears much worse than I realized. I’ll finish it today, it’s very heartbreaking so far. Let me know if you have any others to recommend.
Not Anonymous
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Sickening.
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You know who has unsuccessfully attempted to separate industry from commodification? The fabian anarchists of the United States post-industrial society service-economy war machine, with their economic sanctions against DPRC and their media malignity, which have failed to break the steel-spirits of Coreans in the northern half of the peninsula. Inspiring! Heartwarming! I can learn a lot from the benevolence and mercy of Friendly Father Kim Jong Un if I read about his heroism instead of filling my head with liberal propaganda. I can learn a lot from the fraternity of the Coreans under Son of the Corean People KJU.
End cultural imperialism! Bosintang is Corean heritage! End the persecution of bosintang eaters in Corea!
Signed, Blastoise
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The works on physical economy of Lyndon LaRouche are very important. Environmentalism is a pro-genocide Malthusian conspiracy to limit population. The truth is that the more people who are born, if they are given the resources necessary to enhance the creativity of their minds and the ability to effect scientific discoveries, which is the real meaning of freedom, then the more people we produce the greater is the likelihood that they will effect discoveries to avert disaster. Human beings are a resource, not a liability. I agree that we need to start treating human beings as such. However there are no limits to growth. Pretending otherwise is an excuse to deprive poor villagers in Africa of their only energy sources, that is the practical effect of most environmentalist propaganda. We need to export our modern technologies to eradicate poverty because economic development is the new name for peace.
President Lincoln knew that labor precedes capital and thus should be given priority over capital. He wanted every worker to have a home. And they don’t want us to know that he, too, was a Bolshevik. (Mao Zedong: Land to the Tillers.) He said that right makes might.
(This comment is like a flat line pointing at a rainbow instead of following the gradient.)
Signed, Salmon Man
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There’s a controversial CBC show called Kim’s Convenience (pro-Israel propaganda) and the father says that Corea used to be spelled with a ‘C’ and now it’s spelled with a ‘K’ because of Japanese imperialism.
So now I spell it with a ‘C’ because I think the original Mean Girls is a very funny and true movie.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/36/61/85/3661856916c12fc8821c017b3de08098.jpg
This is what liberal media does to poison kid’s minds.
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Interesting. Say more.
There’s a Charlie Brown comic and the text says “if you want to get any joy out of being depressed you have to put your head down and sulk like this.” I tried to find the original but the search engine really wants me to know that it’s not ok to be a whiney sadboye when you’re a grown ass man, but I’m sure someone else can locate it more easily.
Perhaps culturally the psychosocial effects of trauma from events like the invasions of Corea or Vietnam are macrocosmic similitudes of the kind of cyclical suffering which results when one person inflicts traumatic stress on another person. Diane Sare wrote that perhaps the invasion of Vietnam was not about Vietnam at all, but about getting America to do something so evil that no amount of miracles will wash the white wool clean. In that sense it’s similar to how Lyndon LaRouche described Adolf Hitler as a Dionysian. The Apples of Apollo as I remember it has an interesting exploration of the Dionysian perspective on Christianity.
I used to want to write a book called America: A Case Study in State Narcissism.
Americans really need to be taught the works of Ho Chi Minh to understand how French imperialism destroyed Vietnam and why the American reaction against their independence was criminal rather than heroic. IIRC Anthony Bourdain wrote anecdotally that Ho Chi Minh was a cook in Escoffier’s kitchen, which is fascinating if true.
https://flpress.storenvy.com/products/34355857-selected-works-of-ho-chi-minh-volume-1
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Amazing. Thanks for sharing.
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Are you Kevin Smith of Dogma fame? My Dad is your biggest fan, will you give him an internship at one of your companies? He hates his job working in banking/credit.
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Thanks for your enormously insightful posturing, your sincerity touches my heart. I will watch the documentary and I do appreciate the extra context despite my bitter sarcasm.
Friendingly, Fruit aka Putin Simp
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The effects of war can last generations but it isn’t necessary that they do. Perhaps empathogens have a place in highly-regulated contexts to relieve the associated traumas. Reparations to Pyongyang from USA and Japan is a good start. Also if someone establishes a non-profit religious organization to recognize Friendly Father Kim Jong-Un as The Living Buddha Maitteya in a patriotic ceremony, that’s a wonderful gesture for peace.
https://youtu.be/Ja6VlFkEoWQ?si=7QgjBfsyggWTR7A9
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The U.S. military and the police also function this way. Whatever happened to “that we go not out in search of monsters to destroy.” And yet I’m targeted because I’m the one who’s supposedly not patriotic enough. My stone heart weeps blood for Palestine and Friendly Father Kim Jong-Un. What are supposed to do? Listen to Irish Gaelic hymns and rebel songs until the sky falls? ……
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Flotillas of spaceships headed where? Or remaining here… I don’t know whether it’s safer to frantically act with no determined direction or to sit still. I do know I overextend myself and work too hard but taking it easy isn’t in the cards for me, just like it wasn’t in the cards for Terra Treasure. Difference is I need to teach myself to stop undoing their work, telling myself I’m the same when I’m really far out of my depths. Nausea is a cancerous pit in the center of my stomach.
Pax
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Thanks for sharing. Did they diagnose you with temporal lobe epilepsy? If you have religious visions, you might be called epileptic by the antitheists. Or psychotic, or whatever else. Or satanic by some theists. It’s a question of taxonomy, maybe. Or theology. What is science, anyways?
Thanks for your insights about the future having Good in it.
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I appreciate and agree with your perspective. Isn’t it dangerous to share these thoughts publicly? Our entire economy is built on “services” provided domestically at high cost to other nations. The fact we call ourselves their allies is a sad joke. American leaders have sold us out — we are now a parasite-country, and parasitic people are only microcosms of the national culture which recursively scapegoats, feeding the cycle of violence.
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Interesting.
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https://youtu.be/7keno2JP0sI
They’re coming to kill me because I won’t shut up about world peace. Isn’t it true that all of our lives are on loan from GOD? Isn’t it true that every communist is on death row from the very moment of his first awakening? Maybe I’ll never be a martyr, maybe I was always a tragedy. Maybe I’ll never be a comedian. I don’t think my life ever had value so I’m ready to die frankly. America is a dictatorship of the old against the young, of the established against the new, etc.
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“Persons with childhood trauma were more likely to bear a diagnosis of all of the studied conditions: cancer, myocardial infarction, diabetes, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, depression, and anxiety disorders. All of these associations were stronger in younger persons, regardless of the nature of childhood trauma.”
Jeez, thanks for the panic attack. I keep wondering if I should call 911 just in case everything I relate to about physical conditions is true and the people around me are wrong that I am paranoid. But that’s something I shouldn’t do, right? I don’t trust the hospitals or the ambulances anyways. Might as well just wait impatiently for the prince of darkness to collect me of his own volition. Right? I don’t truly have a say in my own healthcare, that’s just a platitude invented by human relations executives.
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One line of thinking goes that the larger geopolitical context of the Russian military operation is the 2014 American Rainbow Revolution / Maidan coup in Ukraine, which infringed upon Russia’s legitimate security interests. How can our leaders expect individual consumers of “services” provided by mental health ideology cultists to accept personal responsibility for our acts of interpersonal destruction when our military-industrial bureacratic synarchs don’t accept social responsibility for tyrannical acts of genocidal spycraft? Russia and Ukraine are only proxies for spiritual conflicts happening within the corrupt hearts of individual Americans, so is world war three another wave-phase of the Book of Enoch?
This is why I say there’s a twin-mountain on our backs and that mountain is cultural imperialism and that mountain is psychiatry. The angels Gabriel and Moroni want to help us smash that mountain.
Smedley Butler was an isolationist but he wrote an interesring essay called War Is A Racket. Who is ultimately responsible for the cycle of violence? It’s a question of who has the willpower to act upon the necessity for change. Whoever demonstrates himself capable of leading us all beyond this punctum saliens to a higher form of civilization on earth deserves to be president of a republic on Mars.
https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2022/11/30/ten-principles-of-a-new-international-security-and-development-architecture/
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Soylent Green is poorple!
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Dan,
Do you really think those societies are truly disconnected from the industrial revolutions of the past and present in a world where contact between peoples is instantaneous thanks to cellular technology? Autarchy is an interesting concept but I don’t know of any nation on the planet that has successfully achieved it in practice. Maybe some smaller utopian communities are completely self-sufficient. Enlighten me!
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https://youtu.be/Y9a49oFalZE?si=fbd719vR2YhG5PGc
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Added a couple of his titles to my cart on Abebooks. Thanks!
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What Ted Kaczynski called us is “leftists.”
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Very cool.
May I suggest a feature for this website here? I would like an “applause” button or a “congratulations” button. Sometimes I don’t have any productive comments but I like an article enough to want to simply say “thanks!”
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Basic human kindness isn’t common sense anymore because we’re living on the cusp of an anti-renaissance. Some of us have lost touch with our humanity, our hearts have turned to stone because of repeated ostracization experiences or other traumas. We need extra help and excluding us because we’re evil doesn’t serve the goal of interesting us in the inherent dignity of others. I for one appreciate this article and its critical perspective because I’m a morally retarded, paranoid narcissist.
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Dr. Ruby,
I love this article. You have successfully deconstructed psychiatry according to its own disordered discontinuum, turned it right-side up in a way that is both precise and concise. This is so much cooler than what Marx did to Hegel. We need classical education brought back into our schools so that all of us are able to respond in such a critically constructive way to counterfeits of leadership. I think your article reflects a high degree of understanding of romantic versus scientific outlook and I aspire to your level of clarity.
Mac
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These ideas are not new at all. See Sri Sankaracharya’s writings on non-duality for example.
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This is false information. Read W. Allen Salisbury’s volume The Civil War and the American System. President Abraham Lincoln was a correspondent with Karl Marx, who held a personal grudge against Henry C. Carey. The issue with dogmatic Marxism is that it does not take into account technological advancement. Rosa Luxemburg corrected this problem, read her doctoral thesis called The Industrial Development of Poland.
Also see Nancy Spannaus, The Political Economy of the American Revolution.
The American war of independence was the first anti-colonial uprising. Read Lenin’s Letter to the American Worker and his tome against Malthusianism. Both communists and industrial capitalists are supposed to be anti-Malthusian.
Fidel Castro: Abolish the IMF!
Pax
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Specifically loot-and-steal parasitical capitalism contra American-style Whig Republican Industrial Capitalism. Of course, dogmatic Marxists make no distinction because they are viewed as two aspects of one process.
See the writings of Henry Carey, Henry Clay, Peshine Smith, Friedrich List et al. Also Lenin’s monumental work on Imperialism, and Kwame Nkrumah’s book Neo-Colonialism.
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The Shock Doctrine is a pretty interesting read about what the author calls disaster capitalism.
Marcuse called it the rational application of irrationality.
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Read Cusanus’ essay On Learned Ignorance for a theological exploration of this question. I myself need another copy. I can’t get enough of that book, every re-read brings me to a higher understanding of my own uniqueness as a Human Being created imago viva dei. We are all blessed to live in the same historical epoch as a genius such as Nicholaus of Cusa and His brilliance continues to shine a scintillating light upon the darkness of present-day humankind, myself included. Never enough thanks or praise for His wonderful contributions.
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See Lenin’s pamphlet on Leftism: An Infantile Disorder and the writings of Mao Zedong on the mass line. Leftism is adventurism/extremism, it is actually anti-collectivist and feeds neoliberal reaction by demanding too much progress too rapidly. (I should know.)
The left-right dichotomy only exists to divide us. We need a union based on the common human essence and a recognition that the Human Becoming is capable to eternally enhance the creativity of His mind and the Beauty of His Soul, and recognition that the laws of the human mind are in cohesion with the laws of the living universe, which is constantly moving to higher levels of order. (Helga Zepp LaRouche and Lyndon LaRouche.)
I like to say: laissez-faire? More like lies al-Shaytan. (I should know.)
Also see Burnham’s The Managerial Revolution.
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Brilliant.
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Thank you for sharing.
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Excellent article.
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