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Anonymous asked:
do U feel like every day life has become more pathologized? i feel like every conversation i have W people on campus ends W some variant of them telling me they're sure they're autistic
the nature of psychiatry is that its diagnostic definitions are unstable and prone to semantic widening, often fuelled by disciplinary state intervention and/or by industry interests & resulting in more and more people identifying the psychiatrised behaviours as relevant to their own lives and identifying themselves with vaguer and milder forms of the diagnosis, often eventually prompting a liberal backlash phase in which lay talking heads attempt to rescue the sanctity of the original medical definition by either narrowing it or just making a new and more restrictive diagnostic entity with a different name to distinguish the stigmatised form from the nobody-in-power-cares form, and generally in either case the entire pattern begins again. i diagrammed this here and described a related manifestation of this linguistic shell game here.
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JDPON DON I AM SORRY FOR DOUBTING YOU
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can't wait to observe the stock market tomorrow. our glorious leader has gone ham on the tarrifs and he repeatedly swore to bring manufacturing and industry back to the glorious motherland in his tarrif announcement. if that all works I'm a little worried about the environmental impact it's going have on the water supply and air quality, especially in tandem with the anti-vaccine beliefs of the Kennedy scion and whatever's being done to the EPA. our livestock are already plague-ridden
Well don't worry too much about it working, we're in the "needs 20+ years of nationwide full scope industrial policy" stage of reindustrializing the US. Aggressive tariffs will probably just make national industry worse for any reasonable time scale!
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i think being a semi-ironic maoist standard english, 'read settlers', card-carrying third worldist constantly talking about jdpon as any kind of western socialist but esp. as a white usamerican is corny and embarassing beyond belief. it just feels like a way to totally displace any responsibility to engage in serious political action innit, no substantive difference to all that "going to punk shows and house parties is the revolution" schtick that such people (rightly) make fun of
like i just think "well everyone here is just a treatlerite we need unlimited genocide on these first wordlers president xi please save us" is a cheap excuse to avoid engaging with the fact that 99% of marxist parties in your country are ossified fossils of bodies that might have engaged with mass proletarian politics 40 years ago at best and combination newspaper sales outlets/sex cults at worst as the culmination of a century of failures from the communist movement and therefore as a problem to be actually grappled with and solved. there is a awfully nice dovetail between "only the global south has revolutionary potential, we need jdpon to invade and reeducate the yankkk$" and "phew! guess those global southerners are the ones who have to do all the work"
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