… at least part of the time. So say government mental health “experts.”
The answer? More “surveillance.”
Yeah. That’s what they say. Surveillance.
If half of us are mentally ill (and being sad these days seems to count as a top “illness”), you’ve really gotta wonder: Which freaking half? The half that thinks stuff like this is pernicious nonsense? Or that half that lines up for “treatment” for every little twitch or sorrow?
The half lining up to make Big Bux by persuading us (and Our Beloved Government) that we’re all wackos appear to be pretty darned smart at the moment. And they’ll probably continue patting themselves on the wallet back until one day the public figures out what the “experts” have done to them and rips some heads off.
Half the country being certifiably mentally ill. Mainly because half of normal human feeling and action is now defined as sickness. Is there any limit to the level of BS some people will believe?
I read about this the other day and couldn’t help but think the sane half is being set up as the crazy half because they aren’t gonna comply one day…..especially when a gov agency will be the ones to designate who’s crazy or not….and the loose definition of crazy is based on not fitting into “normal society standards” to begin with, another “oh oh” right there……
Ok, that sounds like paranoia, I wonder if that makes me one of their crazy people or if that puts me in “the other building”….LOL
In my salad days, when I was just awaking to the ZAP and the RKBA, I opined that it seems like the government wanted everyone to be either on the “right” drugs; have a conviction for being on the “wrong” drugs , or have a background check and fingerprints to work in a job that managed one of the other two groups.
The only difference hindsight has offered is that it’s not a conspiracy, it’s a consensus. This is how tyrants and busybodies think.
Wonder if Thomas Szasz http://www.psychotherapy.net/interview/thomas-szasz#section-slavery-witchcraft-and-psychiatry has read that statement. (In fact the “experts” have probably classified him as one of the mentally ill.)
I wonder, which half of me is crazy? It could be the half that says everything is going to be okay. It might be the half that says load the magazines and sharpen the bayonets. Maybe, it’s the half that says to hell with it all, let’s have a beer.
Somehow, I’m not surprised. After all, I feel that I must be crazy for putting up with many of the BS that often pop up throughout the year. That I frequently want to come up with crazy and very sarcastic answers to the BS I get in my life.
I consider all the government extremists to be crazy, and some days it seems that they are more than half the population. Between those who work for government and those who worship its every act (as long as it is “the other guy” who is getting the bad end of the stick) it seems we liberty-aware types are kinda outnumbered. Glad I’ve got a little pocket of awareness here.
i have asked many people over the years if they could come up with a definition for ‘normal’ that didn’t exclude at least half of the population. i occasionally get a laugh in return but mainly it’s a blank look.
clarence
Looks like we’re not alone. Of course being Socialist Europe, I’m actually not surprised.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/04/us-europe-mental-illness-idUSTRE7832JJ20110904
Oh, speaking of crazy. Hoffa has basically declared war on everyone that’s not a Democrat.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/05/jimmy_hoffa_at_obama_event_on_gop_lets_take_these_son_of_bitches_out.html
Does that mean it’s time yet? : )
Hoffa talks a good game, but if he could deliver the union rolls would be expanding and our jobs would not of gone overseas.
I saw those Hoffa comments. And also the Obama speech Hoffa was introducing. What? Do they still think this is 2008?
Hoffa sounds just like the folks in Obama’s past that he supposedly disavowed. Obama sounds like somebody who hasn’t just spent three years fumbling and bumbling his job.
But keeping these comments on topic … now there are some crazy people. One crazy person, especially — a guy who talks about unifying the country and moving beyond politics, whose every word is political in the slimiest sense.
It sounds like more of a jobs program for shrinks – with lots of power thrown in. Look at the communist countries. Lots of opponents were put in mental institutions. I’m sure a good argument that somebody willing to stand against an all powerful murderous regime was nuts but it still is plain old control.
Obama is always going to help organized labor. The ‘organized’ part is the key. He needs them. Those who aren’t in unions are on their own – probably crazy. During the auto company bailouts he rewrote bankruptcy law so that the unions got a good deal rather than the trustees. He’s pissed off a lot of his base so right now he’s busy playing to them. To me, playing to unions and Wall Street is pretty strange. I think Obama is crazy and needs medication.
Steve
The first thing that came to mind for me was the song “They’re Coming to Take Me Away”, or the song Woody Woodpecker sang in the older cartoons(Everybody thinks I’m cra-zee..yessiree that’s me, that’s me..)..I guess I listened to the Dr. Demento Show too much during my formative years(glad I did-Dr. Demento and Mad Magazine’s Don Martin cartoons-great mental references for everyday life). So, if the person I’m looking at isn’t crazy, it’s me?
LOL, Scott. “They’re Coming to Take Me Away” has been running through my mind for the last week — ever since Joel embedded it over at The Ultimate Answer to Kings.
And as to Mad Magazine … yeah. My parents banned me from reading it after I quoted some of its anti-authoritarian wisdom at them when I was 10. Decades later, I still remember what Mad said that made them so angry. And the thing is, Mad was right, and they were wrong. Of course, I was either stupid or naive to quote that particular thing at them. But that’s just the way it is for some of us.
Then, now, and always, pointing out that Authority’s emperor is naked is a good way to end up with some “establishment” labeling you as crazy. Or just generally bad.
The obvious question is why is the government employing such a large percentage of those who are crazy ALL of the time?