{"id":7098,"date":"2011-09-05T10:56:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T17:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=7098"},"modified":"2011-09-05T10:56:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T17:56:53","slug":"half-of-us-are-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/05\/half-of-us-are-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of us are crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; at least part of the time. So say government mental health &#8220;experts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The answer? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/233884.php\" target=\"_blank\">More &#8220;surveillance.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yeah. That&#8217;s what they say. <i>Surveillance<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>If half of us are mentally ill (and being sad these days seems to count as a top &#8220;illness&#8221;), you&#8217;ve really gotta wonder: Which freaking half? The half that thinks stuff like this is pernicious nonsense? Or that half that lines up for &#8220;treatment&#8221; for every little twitch or sorrow?<\/p>\n<p>The half lining up to make Big Bux by persuading us (and Our Beloved Government) that we&#8217;re all wackos appear to be pretty darned smart at the moment. And they&#8217;ll probably continue patting themselves on the <del datetime=\"2011-09-05T17:47:46+00:00\">wallet<\/del> back until one day the public figures out what the &#8220;experts&#8221; have done to them and rips some heads off.<\/p>\n<p>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?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; at least part of the time. So say government mental health &#8220;experts.&#8221; The answer? More &#8220;surveillance.&#8221; Yeah. That&#8217;s what they say. Surveillance. If half of us are mentally ill (and being sad these days seems to count as a top &#8220;illness&#8221;), you&#8217;ve really gotta wonder: Which freaking half? The half that thinks stuff like this is pernicious nonsense? Or that half that lines up for &#8220;treatment&#8221; for every little twitch or sorrow? The half lining up to make Big Bux by persuading us (and Our Beloved Government) that we&#8217;re all wackos appear to be pretty darned smart at the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/05\/half-of-us-are-crazy\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Half of us are crazy<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-health-and-science","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}