psychiatry
Robert Smith
Psychiatry has replaced religion as the main instrument of social
control of modern industrial societies. As the intrusion of the state
into previously private realms in modern democracies has caused the
need for more and more coerion, the power of civil society, family and
religion have continously eroded. The existential freedom (and
responsibility) of the individual to create his own values and meaning
has been disappearing. Irrespective of the supposedly good intentions
of activists, social workers, and politicians; the excessive concern
with social equality can only lead to mental and perhaps literal
slavery. Only this 'excessive concern with social equality' could, for
example, justify giving children CNS stimulant drugs while at the same
time prohibiting adults from using them.
We reject the usage of medicine as an instrument of social control,
however, we cannot totally free ourselves from the madhouse of the
therapeutic state. The whole world has become a hospital. Popular
opinion and politicians find it too useful to control people in this
manner. We also reject most violence, not on the grounds that violence
is in itself always bad, and while we will note the the rights of
homosexuals was changed after the stonewall riots, violence is mostly
bad and usually causes more problems than it solves. Rather than being
pacificists we advocate the right kind violence in the right kind of
way. We can sow the seeds for this right kind of violence by
advocating out and out insurrection against psychiatry. An
insurrection against psychiatry need not include violence in any way
shape or form at this present time. For now we can safely advocate the
following forms of insurrection:
A) Lying to the medical profession. Because psychiatry is primarily
(although not always) an instrument of social control, we should have
no expectation whatsoever that mental health workers are agents of our
interests. We should have no reason therefore to be honest to any
member of the medical profession whatsoever at this point in history
unless we have good reason to be. This includes giving a false
history, tampering with drug tests, lying about disability to receive
benefits, misleading court officials to receive more lenient
sentences, and so on.
B) Cheating at the game of psychiatry. If an age is imbued with
error, then why be a victim of other people's delusions? Decent profit
could possibly be made from selling ritalin, so why not sell it? How
can one possibly fake having a fake disease? Why should a victim of
the inner city drug war not rob methadone users by slipping them
naloxtone? A well versed malingerer would note the correct diseases to
have: Fibromyalgia, for instance, cannot easily be disproved. Why not
get rid of an enemy by "confessing" to a mental health professional
that they may be abusing their child, suicidal, or depressed? It can
probably be done anonymously through an employee assistance program,
some of them have passwords and codes. The drug court system will
allow a way out for the right minded criminal. Im not advocating that
the average reader smuggle crack over the border unless so inclined,
but cheat the therapeutic state if you can!
C) Demonstrations of cheating. As it becomes obvious that some are
cheating at the game of psychiatry one of two things will happen:
Either it psychiatry will become more powerful or less powerful. It
will only become less powerful if it is less useful to politicians. If
it is becoming less powerful, well then all the better, if is becoming
more powerful at least we are not being robbed by the delusions of
others. So how do we demonstrate the cheating of psychiatry? Well we
cant do it outright that would be too dangerous. Methods of cheating
at the therapeutic state can and should be spread on books, art,
writing to prisoners, leaders of gangs, psychiatry victims,
Scientologists, and others who would likely be victims of psychiatric
coercion.
D) Rejection of activism. This is a non-political movement, we are
going to take control of our lives and ignore the therapeutic state.
It is beyond reforming. The powerful economic, social and political
forces that gave birth to the therapeutic state are beyond the scope
of this essay and they are beyond our conscious control regardless and
we are not going to be the victims of society so some useless social
parasite or politician can enjoy a more comfortable existence. The
state will have to change its behavior when people are ignoring or
cheating at the therapeutic game in the end.
We have an exciting future ahead of us as we watch the therapeutic
state crumble in front of our eyes. May we wait until the day when we
can drink the blood of our enemies in the street!