"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Sunday, February 9, 2025
And these were the people who were going to "transform" America
I was pretty upset with how Biden's Brain Trust stole 2020, but I got on with my life. If politics gets you that worked up, it's not politics anymore. It's mental illness. I do wonder if they realize how much I enjoy their lamentations. Is there a German word for schadenfreude that's not shameful?
I was not happy when Obama was elected in 2008. And so the next morning I got up and went to work. In 2012 I was so upset that I got the hell up and went the hell to work.
"Trauma" is to the 21st century what "sexually represssed" was to the 20th century.
Trauma started as an explanation for shell-shock experienced only by men, and persisting effects after war. But then women decided they also experience trauma (without shell-shock) and that set the cat among the pigeons. (Think of the song 'I can do anything you can do better')
Now you'll see every social worker must be "trauma informed", even recently judges were to be re-educated to be more "trauma aware". If this continues it will destroy all sanity.
PS, looking at all the old depictions of 'insanity' and Bedlam (the Bethlehem hospice in London) you can see that almost every 'insane' person depicted was Autistic!
So much for the idea that autism is recent. I worked in a facility for young autistic folks at the turn of the century. It looked just like that depiction sometimes, until we got things tidied up.
I just read a story about a place for unteachable kids, probably WWII time, the story was mostly about a deaf kid, but he makes two friends while he's there, one with Downs Syndrome and one with some other physical/mental impairment , possibly autism; the place was very cruel, but as the guys got called into the war the were replaced with conscientious objectors who rescued/returned some of the boys to their families.
Yes. Look until recently the French diagnosed it as 'psychosis' caused by a frigid mother. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/08/france-is-50-years-behind-the-state-scandal-of-french-autism-treatment It's been mislabelled, and probably hidden in institutions.
Continental vs Anglo. The difference is Idealism vs Empiricism. Idealists look to great scholars (Freud, Kant etc) to analyse problems. Continentals are stuck on this. Meanwhile British and Anglos noticed that observing the real (not mental) world brought better knowledge and results. Called Empricism ('measuring'). Continentals hate to admit that 'Anglo-Saxons' are right about this, so they cling to Freud etc.
Continentals start from sets of mental abstractions (like Plato's ideal forms) to try to fit observed reality into categories. The British began to move away from all this not long after the Reformation -starting with observations of the physical world and THEN proposing abstract explanations. (Francs Bacon etc). And here we are, the Industrial Revolution, the rise of the USA.
And the Continentals respond, 'Yes but you need Mathematics, which is pure abstraction'... Sorry! I get carried away with this stuff! best wishes everyone.
I was pretty upset with how Biden's Brain Trust stole 2020, but I got on with my life.
ReplyDeleteIf politics gets you that worked up, it's not politics anymore. It's mental illness.
I do wonder if they realize how much I enjoy their lamentations.
Is there a German word for schadenfreude that's not shameful?
Gloating. I think we’re owed a little gloating, don’t you?
DeleteI was not happy when Obama was elected in 2008. And so the next morning I got up and went to work. In 2012 I was so upset that I got the hell up and went the hell to work.
ReplyDelete"Trauma" is to the 21st century what "sexually represssed" was to the 20th century.
ReplyDeleteTrauma started as an explanation for shell-shock experienced only by men, and persisting effects after war. But then women decided they also experience trauma (without shell-shock) and that set the cat among the pigeons. (Think of the song 'I can do anything you can do better')
Now you'll see every social worker must be "trauma informed", even recently judges were to be re-educated to be more "trauma aware". If this continues it will destroy all sanity.
PS, looking at all the old depictions of 'insanity' and Bedlam (the Bethlehem hospice in London) you can see that almost every 'insane' person depicted was Autistic!
ReplyDeleteSo much for the idea that autism is recent. I worked in a facility for young autistic folks at the turn of the century. It looked just like that depiction sometimes, until we got things tidied up.
I just read a story about a place for unteachable kids, probably WWII time, the story was mostly about a deaf kid, but he makes two friends while he's there, one with Downs Syndrome and one with some other physical/mental impairment , possibly autism; the place was very cruel, but as the guys got called into the war the were replaced with conscientious objectors who rescued/returned some of the boys to their families.
ReplyDeleteYes. Look until recently the French diagnosed it as 'psychosis' caused by a frigid mother.
Deletehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/08/france-is-50-years-behind-the-state-scandal-of-french-autism-treatment
It's been mislabelled, and probably hidden in institutions.
Continental vs Anglo. The difference is Idealism vs Empiricism. Idealists look to great scholars (Freud, Kant etc) to analyse problems. Continentals are stuck on this. Meanwhile British and Anglos noticed that observing the real (not mental) world brought better knowledge and results. Called Empricism ('measuring'). Continentals hate to admit that 'Anglo-Saxons' are right about this, so they cling to Freud etc.
DeleteContinentals start from sets of mental abstractions (like Plato's ideal forms) to try to fit observed reality into categories. The British began to move away from all this not long after the Reformation -starting with observations of the physical world and THEN proposing abstract explanations. (Francs Bacon etc). And here we are, the Industrial Revolution, the rise of the USA.
DeleteAnd the Continentals respond, 'Yes but you need Mathematics, which is pure abstraction'... Sorry! I get carried away with this stuff! best wishes everyone.
DeleteWe really aren’t treating our mentally ill much better than the old Bedlam days, are we, by letting them live on the streets?
ReplyDeleteI'm more wondering why we let them run the country.
Deletebecause you have to be crazy to want to be a politician
DeleteI'm more wondering why we let them run the country.
ReplyDeleteYes, we'd be far better off if the politicians were just rounded up and made to live in boxes near railyards or someplace similar.