We belong to the lineage of Diogenes, not Plato. That is our fate. Not everything is bad about such a fate. The freedom Diogenes possessed Plato never had.
Holden, some of your statements hit me like a magic incantation. To understand our Fate might reduce much of our anxieties. Thank you for your extreme thoughtfulness. May the bastards in your own society never wear down your determination to be an honest man.
... we here, are not bothered about making it. Ever.
What could "making it" even mean in such societies as ours ?
Our failures may have been our greatest merit.
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Psychiatric diagnosis has followed the same trajectory as alcoholism. Each diagnosis in turn has been constructed by somatic psychiatrists as a disease, in each case building a similar house of cards. It doesn’t seem to matter that the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry and its influence-peddling in academic psychiatry has been exposed as financially and scientifically corrupted and manipulated. The drug companies have engaged in study suppression, falsification, strategic marketing, and financial incentives.
Take, for example, the antidepressants: the chemical imbalance theory has been discredited, but this didn’t alter the fact that the theory is still believed. Never mind that antidepressants don’t actually do anything constructive, apart from the fact that people believe they do (which has also been proved). And in their wake a lot of harm has been done.
source (Mad in America)