"The young and the old are defenseless against relatives who want to get rid of them by casting them in the role of mental patient,and against psychiatrists whose livelihood depends on defining them as mentally ill." - Thomas S. Szasz
Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If Christianity or Communism were called diseases, would they then look for the chemical and genetic 'causes' of these 'conditions?'" - also Szasz (prophetic, no?)
It seems that the last three generations are truly messed up and I conclude it began with the Boomer gen. Bucking the establishment. Now that very same Boomer gen is ruining our nation and is the establishment. No wonder our youth is a mess.
I'd have to chew on the Port Huron statement a bit, get the saliva flowing, see if it really tastes like shit lol.
I've been watching the 1971 debate between Noam Chomsky and Michael Foucault... anarcho-syndicalism advocate vs. the parts of Marxism that remain Hegelian in defining the variables of the equation before pronounced an "answer" as unassailable
....fusion cuisine to chew on...
I'm surprised at the overlap between Foucault and Szasz.
Hadn't got to dessert lol. I am neither a fan of Chomsky nor Foucault. I was just interested in how Foucault shot down Chomsky in this debate I was watching in a very pro-liberty, Szaszian way. Some of the things he said could have comfortably sprung from Szasz's mouth and mind.
"The young and the old are defenseless against relatives who want to get rid of them by casting them in the role of mental patient,and against psychiatrists whose livelihood depends on defining them as mentally ill." - Thomas S. Szasz
ReplyDeletePsychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If Christianity or Communism were called diseases, would they then look for the chemical and genetic 'causes' of these 'conditions?'" - also Szasz (prophetic, no?)
choo choo!
It seems that the last three generations are truly messed up and I conclude it began with the Boomer gen. Bucking the establishment. Now that very same Boomer gen is ruining our nation and is the establishment. No wonder our youth is a mess.
ReplyDelete'62 was the trigger. It wasn't the same place after.
ReplyDeleteI'd have to chew on the Port Huron statement a bit, get the saliva flowing, see if it really tastes like shit lol.
ReplyDeleteI've been watching the 1971 debate between Noam Chomsky and Michael Foucault... anarcho-syndicalism advocate vs. the parts of Marxism that remain Hegelian in defining the variables of the equation before pronounced an "answer" as unassailable
....fusion cuisine to chew on...
I'm surprised at the overlap between Foucault and Szasz.
S&M fudge packing?
ReplyDeleteHadn't got to dessert lol. I am neither a fan of Chomsky nor Foucault. I was just interested in how Foucault shot down Chomsky in this debate I was watching in a very pro-liberty, Szaszian way. Some of the things he said could have comfortably sprung from Szasz's mouth and mind.
ReplyDeleteIt was easy.. Chomsky's an ass.
ReplyDelete...and Foucault's "Birth of the Clinic" and "Madness and Civilization" were probably required reading for Szasz.
ReplyDeleteAlthough "Madness" was published in '61, same year as Szasz's first book.
ReplyDelete:P
ReplyDeleteI think they were contemporaries. It would be interesting to see if there was any intellectual cross-pollenization between Szasz and Foucault.
ReplyDeletehmmm... I knew these train tracks smelled familiar
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