When you read about some personality
disorders, there's all this talk about the
nature of the disorder being rooted in a
failure to conform to societies "norms".
What I wonder is who or where do these
"norms" originate?
So isn't it logical to assume that if
these "norms" were eliminated, the
personality disorders aren't actually
disorders anymore? And why must everyone
conform to societies norms in the first
place?
I think that a person who actually does
adhere to these norms is more screwed up
than those who don't!
I believe that what the world really needs
is a good holocaust!
American society is too easy and
convenient. So people have lost focus of
what's real and what's fake.
When you look at what's going on around
the globe, it's hard to see where
conforming to societies norms means
anything.
Consumerism is sort of a checks and
balances mechanism. Put a great amount of
focus on having "things", and then
threaten to take those "things" away if
the person doesn't adhere to the norms of
society.
It's all an illusion!
And if you don't buy into that illusion,
then they label you with some sort of
"disorder". And dope you up and fill your
head full of garbage ideas!
It's like the old military addage,
"artillery conquers, and infantry
occupies". In this case, medication is
the artillery, and therapy is the
infantry. Your mind is the target, and
everyone has some sort of mechanism that
hardens their mind against occupation by
outside forces. So the medication
"softens" the target and removes that
fortification, then once your mind is
"softened" by the medication, the
therapists move in to occupy.
We wouldn't want people running around
thinking they know what's best for
themselves would we?
How would you control a person who thinks
for themselves, and retains control over
their own destiny? And even worse, a
person like that might actually infect
others with these crazy ideas of
independant thought!
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purple333
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Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 1420 Location: Sydney
Posted: 05-22-04 14:50pm
Well as I often point out here - we are
the owners, doctors are merely the
mechanics & we should not let them do
what they want to our bodies - after all
we wouldn't let a mechanic wreck our car
& then humbly pay him would we!!
the same applies to everything -
especially the things/topics we argue
about like politics & religion - we do
have minds & so we should use them
& think for ourselves instead of
blindly accepting (& then complaining
but continuing to accept!!
) what we're told to believe, think,
do!!
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oopoopoop
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Posted: 06-18-04 05:35am
Glaston, you are asking questions that
philosophers and social critics have been
pondering for centuries!
One author you may be interested in
reading on these sorts of subjects is r d
laing. A bibliography of his books is
found on:
think,
do!! 