American Psycho-Reductionism
I f--king hate pop psychology. Everything is reduced to "chemicals" or "genetics", context be damned. A close aquaintence of mine was put on pills after a particularly gruesome ending to a relationship, and he was seeing things and hearing pops in his ears for months, while the root problem was never resolved. RIPope at CProbes would agree:
I call the bastards the Pharmafia, the worst form of sanctioned drug running ever known. At least old-school drug runners got to wear gold chains, drive speedboats in the Gulf, and hang out with the strippers. The Merck Nerds, on the other hand, craft their discombobulating poisons of the future in white lab coats with Muzak playing softly in the background.
Look, I don't need a boner, and I don't to be happy. Give me some coke and a notebook and I'll be fine.
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But the larger issue is that people are running headfirst away from their own lives. Into pills, into soma. Literally.
I call the bastards the Pharmafia, the worst form of sanctioned drug running ever known. At least old-school drug runners got to wear gold chains, drive speedboats in the Gulf, and hang out with the strippers. The Merck Nerds, on the other hand, craft their discombobulating poisons of the future in white lab coats with Muzak playing softly in the background.
Look, I don't need a boner, and I don't to be happy. Give me some coke and a notebook and I'll be fine.
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posted by Paul S. at
9:16 AM
3 Comments:
Oh, hell, don't even get me fucking started. My rants on bio-determinism/reductionism, big pharma, and psychiatry in general are LEGION. Chalk it up to my 90's love affair with RD Laing and Thomas Szasz, followed by a fling with Peter Breggin and my foray into feminism (ever look at the etymology of the psycho-analytic term "hysteria"?) and my ongoing horror of Richard Dawkins and Richard Herstein's work (thanks, DICK), but I've little tolerance for the violence that passes itself off as a "treatment" for the mental health malady du jour.
I'll throw in my amen. I've had to talk to people who won't go near medication and freak out at the suggestion, thanks to shithouse past experiences.
http://www.pharmafia.com I thought I coined that phrase today. I stand corrected! Paul S. gets all the credit!
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