I'd say one of the most extreme cases that reveals just how twisted and sick this system of green pieces of paper can be / has become, is that they are necessary for a time-demarcated dose in a private, sealed room with a person you don't know and who (doctorate notwithstanding), really, knows barely a damn thing about you, to engage, in complete trust (due to their "nice" demeanor), in a context-free *simulation* of ostensibly the most intimate of connections. Versus what *should* be a well-thought out but thoroughly community/peer-based system, as existed in most all civilizations before the contemporary West.
This is possibly one of purest evils of contemporary civilization, and we are largely oblivious to it. At least doling out psychoactive substances isn't lying about what it's doing.
LOL. I read it, unaware, for my first assignment in my freshman English class, long ago. Not only was I embarrassed by the fact that I misunderstood it, after I was the first to volunteer their thoughts, but my "peers" with professional parents knew all about it, several apparently well beforehand. Simultaneously, my education about Education had began.
But I must re-read it now, because I don't recall anything about psychiatry. (It was before my first personal engagement with psychiatry.)
I'd say one of the most extreme cases that reveals just how twisted and sick this system of green pieces of paper can be / has become, is that they are necessary for a time-demarcated dose in a private, sealed room with a person you don't know and who (doctorate notwithstanding), really, knows barely a damn thing about you, to engage, in complete trust (due to their "nice" demeanor), in a context-free *simulation* of ostensibly the most intimate of connections. Versus what *should* be a well-thought out but thoroughly community/peer-based system, as existed in most all civilizations before the contemporary West.
This is possibly one of purest evils of contemporary civilization, and we are largely oblivious to it. At least doling out psychoactive substances isn't lying about what it's doing.
I suppose you've read "Body Rituals of The Nacirema"?
If not, you should.
LOL. I read it, unaware, for my first assignment in my freshman English class, long ago. Not only was I embarrassed by the fact that I misunderstood it, after I was the first to volunteer their thoughts, but my "peers" with professional parents knew all about it, several apparently well beforehand. Simultaneously, my education about Education had began.
But I must re-read it now, because I don't recall anything about psychiatry. (It was before my first personal engagement with psychiatry.)
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