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"If You Question Authority, You Are Mentally Ill", Report Finds
Submitted by Pater Tenebrarum via Acting-Man blog,
Only the Sheeple Are Sane
This post is about an issue that is by now a bit dated (though the topic as such certainly isn’t), but we have only just become aware of it and it seemed to us worth rescuing it from the memory hole. In late 2013, the then newest issue of the American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM for short) defined a new mental illness, the so-called “oppositional defiant disorder” or ODD.
As TheMindUnleashed.org informs us, the definition of this new mental illness essentially amounts to declaring any non-conformity and questioning of authority as a form of insanity. According to the manual, ODD is defined as:
[…] an “ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile and defiant behavior,” symptoms include questioning authority, negativity, defiance, argumentativeness, and being easily annoyed.
In short, as Natural News put it: According to US psychiatrists, only the sheeple are sane.
Every time a new issue of the DSM appears, the number of mental disorders grows – and this growth is exponential. A century ago there were essentially 7 disorders, 80 years ago there were 59, 50 years ago there were 130, and by 2010 there were 374 (77 of which were “found” in just seven years). A prominent critic of this over-diagnosing (and the associated over-medication trend) is psychologist Dr. Paula Caplan. Here is an interview with her:
Allen Gregg in conversation with psychologist Dr. Paula Caplan
As MindUnleashed notes:
“Are we becoming sicker? Is it getting harder to be mentally healthy? Authors of the DSM-IV say that it’s because they’re better able to identify these illnesses today. Critics charge that it’s because they have too much time on their hands.
New mental illnesses identified by the DSM-IV include arrogance, narcissism, above-average creativity, cynicism, and antisocial behavior. In the past, these were called “personality traits,” but now they’re diseases. And there are treatments available.”

Edward Abbey on what happens when no-one ever stirs things up
There is an obvious danger involved with such loose definitions such as the one employed in identifying the alleged illness of “ODD”. A chilling example was provided by the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s. In a 1959 speech, Nikita Khrushchev made the following remark:
“Can there be diseases, nervous diseases among certain people in the communist society? Evidently there can be. If that is so, then there also will be offenses which are characteristic of people with abnormal minds. To those who might start calling for opposition to communism on this ‘basis,’ we say that now, too, there are people who fight against communism, but clearly the mental state of such people is not normal.”
Obviously, questioning the best socio-economic system ever devised had to be a sign of insanity, and after Khrushchev’s speech Soviet psychiatrists immediately went to work to discover and institutionalize all those mentally ill “communism deniers”.
The road to what followed had already been paved in 1951, when in a joint session of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences and the Board of the All-Union Neurological and Psychiatric Association, several leading neurologists and psychiatrists were accused of pursuing an “anti-Marxist and reactionary” deviation from the teachings of Pavlov. The session took place on Stalin’s behest so as to “free Soviet psychiatry of Western influences”.
The psychiatrist who wrote the policy report associated with this purge was Andrei Snezhnevsky, who invented (err, “discovered”) a new mental illness, which he termed “sluggish schizophrenia”. After Khrushchev’s 1959 speech, the term was widely adopted and the illness was diagnosed throughout the Eastern Bloc. The symptoms of the alleged “illness” were such that even the slightest change in behavior patterns could henceforth be interpreted as a sign of mental derangement. Political dissent was for instance considered to by a symptom of “sluggish schizophrenia with delusions of reform”.
Snezhnevsky personally signed a decision declaring several prominent dissidents legally insane – among them also neurophysiologist Vladimir Bukovsky, who was the first to expose and criticize the abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union and spent altogether 12 years in prisons, forced labor camps and locked up in psychiatric hospitals for his efforts.
Snezhnevsky’s theories became the only ones acceptable in Soviet psychiatry, and it was obviously held to be quite dangerous to oppose them. Ironically, in 1970, one year before Vladimir Bukovsky managed to smuggle out 150 pages that documented the silencing of political dissenters with the aid of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, the American Psychiatric Association named Snezhnevsky a “distinguished fellow” for his “outstanding contribution to psychiatry and related sciences” at its annual meeting in San Francisco.

Soviet psychiatrist Andrei Snezhnevsky, hero of socialist labor, owner of two Orders of Lenin as well as four Orders of the Red Star and USSR state prize.
Photo credit: tapemark.narod.ru
Money and the Invention of new Categories of Disease
There is a basic problem with psychiatry and psychology: they are largely thymological, as opposed to natural sciences. If you break your arm and visit 10 different medical doctors, you will get the same diagnosis from every single one of them – they will all tell you that your arm is broken. A standardized treatment exists for dealing with a broken arm.
Make a list of psychological problems you are experiencing and visit ten different psychiatrists, and chances are very good that you will receive 10 different diagnoses coupled with 10 different proposals for treatment (including prescriptions for very powerful psychotropic drugs). Genuine severe mental disorders may be connected with chemical imbalances in the brain to some extent (no conclusive proof for this actually exists), but by and large there is little that can be objectively “measured”. The psychologist or psychiatrist must largely rely on the same ability that also characterizes the work of the historian – i.e., what Mises called “understanding”. They can only judge behavior.
So why have so many former “personality traits” been transformed into symptoms of mental illness? One major reason is money. Here are a few data points that shed light on the monetary side of the psychiatry business; the data are by now slightly dated, but they suffice to get the point across. As of 2010:
Global sales of anti-depressants, stimulants, anti-anxiety and anti-psychotic drugs had reached more than $76 billion per year.
Globally, 54 million people were taking anti-depressants that are known to cause addiction, and often violent and homicidal behavior.
In the US, 20% of all women were taking mental health medication in 2010. Essentially every fourth female is prozac’d into quietude.
20 million children worldwide had been diagnosed with mental disorders and were prescribed stimulants and/or powerful anti-depressants.
In 2002, more than 100 million prescriptions were written for anti-depressants alone (cost: $19.5 billion nominal)
In France, one in seven prescriptions is for a psychotropic drug and more than 50% of the employed were taking such drugs (as of 2010, 1.8 million people).
Between 1986 and 2004, combined spending on anti-psychotic drugs and anti-depressants jumped from $500 million to $20 billion.
In the US, the mental health budget, adjusted for inflation, has soared from $33 billion in 1994 to $ 80 billion in 2010 (similar increases have occurred elsewhere).
(data via Stefan Molyneux)
Stefan Molyneux whom we got the above data from also reports that according to the US National Institute of Mental Health (in 2010) “26% of Americans suffer from mental illness” and “nearly 58 million Americans will suffer from an episode of mental illness in any given year”. There you have it – we’re literally surrounded by lunatics. As Molyneux rightly points out: if there is a disease for which we have effective cures, then application of this cure should reduce the prevalence of the disease.
For instance, a number of infectious diseases have been nearly, or completely exterminated by effective vaccines. We should therefore expect that with the arrival of psychiatric medications that allegedly “correct chemical imbalances in the brain”, there should be a decline in the number of mentally ill people. The first such medications were introduced in the mid 1950s. So what happened? In 1955, there were 355,000 adults confined to mental hospitals all over the US on account of being diagnosed as mentally ill by psychiatrists. After 50 years of medical treatment with anti-psychotic drugs, that number has risen to more than 4 million patients (as of 2007). Some success!
While the prescription of psychiatric medications to children soared from the mid 1980s to today, so did the number of youth receiving disability payments from the government for mental disability. It rose from 16,200 in 1986 to 561,569 in 2007 (a 35 fold increase). It appears that all those meds prescribed to “ODD” and “ADHD” children have had the exact opposite effect from that advertised.

Number of Americans disabled by mental illness since Prozac was introduced.
Again, there exists no convincing proof as of yet for any chemical, biological or genetic causes of mental illness. The categorizations found in the DSM are arrived at by “peer consensus”, not by any objective measurements. And yet, drugs that alter chemical balances in the brain are prescribed as treatment. The greater the number of new diseases manufactured by said consensus, the more treatments can be prescribed. As Dr. Thomas Dorman, internist and member of the Royal College of Physicians of the UK, and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, put it:
“In short, the whole business of creating psychiatric categories of ‘disease,’ formalizing them with consensus, and subsequently ascribing diagnostic codes to them, which in turn leads to their use for insurance billing, is nothing but an extended racket furnishing psychiatry a pseudo-scientific aura. The perpetrators are, of course, feeding at the public trough.”
It is not too difficult to see the enormous monetary incentives that are driving this business of declaring as many people as possible to be mentally ill. There no longer is such a thing as a harmless “eccentric”. Any deviation from the norms laid out by the psychiatric profession mean one is in need of treatment. Only the sheeple are sane.
Stefan Molyneux’s podcast on mental illness from which we have taken most of the statistics presented above can be seen here:
Stefan Molyneux on mental illness.
Freethinkers Medicated Into Silence by Good Serfs
However, there may be another reason why anti-authoritarianism specifically has made it onto the list of behaviors held to be symptomatic of mental illness. Psychologist Dr. Bruce Levine has laid the problem out in an article entitled “Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill”. A few pertinent excerpts follow below. First Dr. Levine explains why there seem so few anti-authoritarians in the US. The reason in his opinion is that many have been medicated into silence:
“Anti-authoritarians question whether an authority is a legitimate one before taking that authority seriously. Evaluating the legitimacy of authorities includes assessing whether or not authorities actually know what they are talking about, are honest, and care about those people who are respecting their authority. And when anti-authoritarians assess an authority to be illegitimate, they challenge and resist that authority—sometimes aggressively and sometimes passive-aggressively, sometimes wisely and sometimes not.
Some activists lament how few anti-authoritarians there appear to be in the United States. One reason could be that many natural anti-authoritarians are now psycho-pathologized and medicated before they achieve political consciousness of society’s most oppressive authorities.”
(emphasis added)
But why does this happen, apart from the monetary incentives discussed above? Why are psychiatrists so eager to medicate anti-authoritarians into a stupor? In Dr. Levine’s opinion, the reason is that the career of most psychiatrists involves an extraordinary degree of compliance with authorities, to the point where they are not even aware anymore of how obedient they have become. When confronted with patients who aren’t exhibiting a similar degree of obedient behavior, they immediately suspect that there is something to diagnose and treat:
“The selection and socialization of mental health professionals tends to breed out many anti-authoritarians. Having steered the higher-education terrain for a decade of my life, I know that degrees and credentials are primarily badges of compliance. Those with extended schooling have lived for many years in a world where one routinely conforms to the demands of authorities. Thus for many MDs and PhDs, people different from them who reject this attentional and behavioral compliance appear to be from another world—a diagnosable one.
I have found that most psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals are not only extraordinarily compliant with authorities but also unaware of the magnitude of their obedience. And it also has become clear to me that the anti-authoritarianism of their patients creates enormous anxiety for these professionals, and their anxiety fuels diagnoses and treatments.
(emphasis added)

“I see before me words you should not have written…”, by Raymond Pettibone, the cover artist of punk band “Black Flag”.
In connection with ODD diagnoses, Dr. Levine not unreasonably asks “Do we really want to diagnose and medicate everyone with “deficits in rule-governed behavior”?”. As he points out, many of the people who have enriched humanity with revolutionary new scientific concepts, inventions or works of art, would have been diagnosed as mentally ill anti-authoritarians in today’s day and age and may well have been medicated into a such a daze that their creations would never have seen the light of day. He cites Albert Einstein as a pertinent example:
“Albert Einstein, as a youth, would have likely received an ADHD diagnosis, and maybe an ODD one as well. Albert didn’t pay attention to his teachers, failed his college entrance examinations twice, and had difficulty holding jobs. However, Einstein biographer Ronald Clark (Einstein: The Life and Times) asserts that Albert’s problems did not stem from attention deficits but rather from his hatred of authoritarian, Prussian discipline in his schools.
Einstein said, “The teachers in the elementary school appeared to me like sergeants and in the Gymnasium the teachers were like lieutenants.” At age 13, Einstein read Kant’s difficult Critique of Pure Reason—because Albert was interested in it. Clark also tells us Einstein refused to prepare himself for his college admissions as a rebellion against his father’s “unbearable” path of a “practical profession.” After he did enter college, one professor told Einstein, “You have one fault; one can’t tell you anything.” The very characteristics of Einstein that upset authorities so much were exactly the ones that allowed him to excel.”
(emphasis added)

It is probably a good bet that a Haldol-addled Einstein wouldn’t have excelled at much. Well, he even looked crazy: theoretical physicist and reputed anti-authoritarian Albert Einstein, who invented a few unimportant little formulas like E=mc2. Rumor has it he also invented gravity, which we have been struggling against ever since.
Photo credit: Getty Images
As Dr. Levine points out, once they are diagnosed as mentally ill, anti-authoritarians are especially likely to become victims of a vicious cycle:
“Many anti-authoritarians who earlier in their lives were diagnosed with mental illness tell me that once they were labeled with a psychiatric diagnosis, they got caught in a dilemma.
Authoritarians, by definition, demand unquestioning obedience, and so any resistance to their diagnosis and treatment created enormous anxiety for authoritarian mental health professionals; and professionals, feeling out of control, labeled them “noncompliant with treatment,” increased the severity of their diagnosis, and jacked up their medications.”
(emphasis added)
Dr. Levine then concludes that the direction in which the system has evolved is indeed reminiscent of a “Sovietization”; just as the ruling classes once employed an authoritarian religious establishment to enforce compliance with the status quo, they can nowadays rely on psychiatry to do the job:
“What better way to maintain the status quo than to view inattention, anger, anxiety, and depression as biochemical problems of those who are mentally ill rather than normal reactions to an increasingly authoritarian society.
[…]
So authoritarians financially marginalize those who buck the system, they criminalize anti-authoritarianism, they psychopathologize anti-authoritarians, and they market drugs for their “cure.”
(emphasis added)
Evidently the system provides ample scope for both intentional and unintentional abuse.
Conclusion:
In order to prevent misunderstandings, we should point out that we don’t want to assert here that there exists no such thing as mental illness, or that psychiatry is completely useless in diagnosing it or providing effective treatment. The same holds for psychotropic medication: there certainly exist medications that can be helpful in alleviating symptoms of severe mental conditions and allow people to lead fairly normal lives that would otherwise be out of reach for them (i.e., we don’t fully agree with Stefan Molyneux’s conclusions; this is simply based on the fact that we personally know of two cases in which appropriate medication helped people exhibiting severe symptoms associated with schizophrenia).
However, it is important to realize that the sciences dealing with the human mind are thymological in nature and cannot make claims based on objectively measurable physical quantities. And yet, the field has turned into a “growth industry” in every respect; the number of behaviors regarded as “abnormal”, as well as the number of medications prescribed for treating such behaviors has grown exponentially. This is a dangerous development and the fact that almost every quirky personality trait is suddenly deemed a sign of disease is certainly giving one pause (it is dangerous in several respects: consider for instance the great number of mass murderers who were prescribed psychotropic drugs. Correlation is not always causation of course, but still…)
The psychopathologizing of anti-authoritarian behavior is yet another step on what looks like an increasingly slippery slope and it strikes us as especially harmful. As Dr. Levine inter alia points out: “It has been my experience that many anti-authoritarians labeled with psychiatric diagnoses usually don’t reject all authorities, simply those they’ve assessed to be illegitimate ones.”
In other words, the term “anti-authoritarian” does not necessarily stand for a blanket rejection of all authorities, but rather a healthy questioning of the legitimacy of existing authorities. This seems all the more necessary today, when governments in the name of providing all-encompassing security (a task at which they are predictably failing) are seeing fit to let individual liberty die a death of a thousand cuts.

Anti-authoritarian street art that has unexpectedly popped up on a wall in Montreal.
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It works both ways in a crisis situation like today :
If you don't question authority or if you won't buy conspiracy without tangible proof...you are labelled similarly as the world polarizes.
And there it is...the diagnosis to take your guns away
2 + 2 = 5!
I don't 'question' authority. Instead ~ I thoroughly reject it. [Why waste my time arguing?].
I guess I'll be alright then.
Power warps reality.
Too bad this study didn't come out a few weeks ago; Obama could have added "Re-Education Camps" to his 'to-do' list at last night's SOTU.
Not to worry, he'll make it 'Priority-1' in next year's SOTU...
Just a thought:
600 strains of an aerosolized thought control vaccine already tested on humans; deployed via air, food and water
http://www.naturalnews.com/048347_aerosolized_vaccines_behavioral_modification_obedience.html#ixzz3PUkQnduC
The psychopaths are reusing old tactics.
Drapetomania
Drapetomania was a supposed mental illness described by American physician Samuel A. Cartwright in 1851 that caused black slaves to flee captivity.[1]:41 Today, drapetomania is considered an example of pseudoscience,[2]:2 and part of the edifice of scientific racism.[3]
...
Prevention and remedy
In addition to identifying drapetomania, Cartwright prescribed a remedy. His feeling was that with "proper medical advice, strictly followed, this troublesome practice that many Negroes have of running away can be almost entirely prevented."[4]
In the case of slaves "sulky and dissatisfied without cause" – a warning sign of imminent flight – Cartwright prescribed "whipping the devil out of them" as a "preventative measure".[2]:35[7][8] As a remedy for this "disease," doctors also made running a physical impossibility by prescribing the removal of both big toes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania
Homosexuality is not a mental illness, it's normal. It's a preference, like a salad dressing.
Do you think Dr. Paula swallows?
Cogito ergo bum.....
I have one:
BNO (Behavioral Normalcy Obsession)
Those who are obsessed with defining and pushing on to others what they believe to be normal behavior.
Paging WilliamBanzai7....Paging WilliamBanzai7...please report to your scheduled labotomy in Room #666
Paging WilliamBanzai7....Paging WilliamBanzai7...please report to your scheduled labotomy in Room #666
Paging WilliamBanzai7....Paging WilliamBanzai7...please report to your scheduled labotomy in Room #666
Paging WilliamBanzai7....Paging WilliamBanzai7...please report to your scheduled labotomy in Room #666
Sir, please report to your appointed labotomy societal assimilation center room 666 or we will have to destroy you.
Signed,
Your loving Government Sociopaths
;-)
Ya mean ta tell me,
I've had this "ODD" thing ALL my life?
Why haven't I been told this before now?
That's O.K. , I wouldn't have believed um then either.
We're gonna sedate and medicate some folks!
There might be something to this article. Pass me a leg will ya?
To those who refuse to be bought
Engaging in critical thought
Discarding their pill
Makes us mentally ill
Amazing what evil has wrought
Long live the king! Love the limericks. Maybe because I'm simple minded but whatever, thanks man.
Our founding fathers would now be considered “anti-authoritarian” , medicated and had their guns taken away.
Here are 125 reasons for admission to a Mental Hospital in the 1800s...
Deranged Masturbation is one of them...
http://uproxx.com/webculture/2013/10/deranged-masturbation-here-are-125-reasons-for-mental-hospital-admission-in-the-1800s/
And you thought that we have problems?
These idiots forgot about the Baker Act? That and one highly functional sociopath with a MSSW degree can put away any annoyance you may encounter (unless it was elected).
if you like penis in your ass then you have serious probability to live in cali.
If I question authority I'm ill .....
so will I be cured if I answer the homeless?
~""If You Question Authority, You Are Mentally Ill","~
Weh-heh-hell, that explains much. So can I get a gubmint check for it? Whoops, looks like not. I was born here. Ruck me funny.
I think you mean "Ruck me funning"?
~"I think you mean "Ruck me funning"?"~
Collect!!! Sank you!
If you are forced to reside in a lunatic asylum, do you want to be called 'normal'?
Drapetomania was just a 19th century version of "Global Warming" or "Free Trade" or any of the NWO-speak the corporatists use to keep 21st century field niggers and debt serfs on the plantation. The opportunity for the statists to employ pseudo-science for wide scale disenfranchisement and revocation of existing civil liberties, such as gun rights, is newer (20th century) and alarming as the amplitude and reach of the pseudo-science seems to be increasing with each go round of the big Rinse, Repeat Machine buffeted by an ever more voluminous body of "evidence" and ever larger apparatuses of State for enforcement.
Excellent. Well spoken.
Ditto.
I think its high time we convene our own panel of experts to determine whether or not the state adopting authoritarian measures to keep any population in check constitutes some sort of mental disorder ;-)
I am reasonably well convinced that the people who "rise' to the "top" are the ones who will do anything to get and hold power, namely the sociopaths. One of the things they are demonstrably willing to do in order to hold power is to use any means necessary to restrain everyone else's ability to wrest power from them, or to defy their "authority".
This of course means disarming them, because all political power flows from the muzzle of a rifle. So:
1. Foster, create, and run a number of incidents, false or real, in which people with guns "go crazy" and commit mass killings.
2. Focus the media on these events for weeks on end to raise and maintain fear levels.
3. Intimate that there are "crazies" and "terrorists" among us that seem like "normal" people, and that these are "lone wolf" types.
4. Develop and "offer" "solutions" which include psychiatric diagnoses for people who don't love you controlling them, leading to...
5. Taking away guns from anyone who would defy you.
Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis.
The Hegelian Dialectical Triad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis,_antithesis,_synthesis
1% of the population are psychopaths.
1% of the population run the place.
Correlation is not the same as causality, but...........
"New mental illnesses identified by the DSM-IV include arrogance, narcissism, above-average creativity, cynicism, and antisocial behavior. In the past, these were called “personality traits,” but now they’re diseases."
Sounds like all of the criteria for becoming a U.S. president, take the present occupant of the oval office (please!).
Just a thought:
600 strains of an aerosolized thought control vaccine already tested on humans; deployed via air, food and water
http://www.naturalnews.com/048347_aerosolized_vaccines_behavioral_modification_obedience.html#ixzz3PUkQnduC
So I guess that means that Washington DC is going to move to Cloud City & Obama is gonna be replaced by Lando Calrissian.
LOL ~ Some shit is just RETARDED when you play it #FOARWARD
Couple thousand milligrams of vitamin C each day will put that crap in the toilet along with the flu. Wow have we 'evolved' since 1800. Turn it loose on the scurvy dogs.
Doug Stanhope
Humans were not meant to live underneath gas filled tubes and eat nutrient free foods. What we are seeing now is the result of that.
pods
Great quote from a great show - he has several others, eg 'I was terrified when I was diagnosed with an interesting and unique personality, but my doctor put me on zolox...' that's not verbatim, and I can't remember the rest, but 'No Refunds' is a great show, worth the watch on youtube.
Stanhope is a great anti-authoritarian voice in comedy.
so as vaccination quantities increase so does ADD ... the solution is more drugs...$$$$$
- 49 dozes of 14 vaccines by the age of 6 years
- or 69 doses of 16 vaccines by 18
- I know personally several instances of serious illness, breathing and death after these cocktails are given to bubs
Did you get this much unknown crap forced into you? BTW unweaned puppies are not recommended for vaccination, they have mothers milk and a fragile immune system (several vets in the family).
http://www.nvic.org/Downloads/49-Doses-PosterB.aspx
Great question. However, my up post means nothing. It appears I am mentally ill.
I was a college freshman by about two months when Swine Flu hit. They didn't bother to mention that vaccination was optional. Other than that, I have avoided the worst of it.
dont forget Gallileo and Jenner, great men that changed the world thru fighting the " authority " of established indoctrination.
Savage Goose - Yes. Authorities slaughtered Pythagoras, jailed Galileo and mocked Copernicus. Such authority misses out on the adventure of existence which as a few here understand is a lot broader than our narrow (but expanding) point of view.
In my journal from two years ago, I have a note of existing in 5D and 3D simultaneously. I study particle physics as a hobby. I sent it to a couple colleagues who thought I was insane. See the movie Interstellar. The science behind the movie is based on Quantum Theorist Kip Thorne the most preeminant theorist of our time.
The movie has the main character enter a singularity and operates in 5D and 3D (dimensions) simultaneously. He is a professor at Cal Tech and I will send him my entire journal which will blow his mind but I keep much of my thoughts private. In about five years I can end my business career and make some interesting contributions to science in Quantum Physics. Some useful math.
I have conducted experiments with quantum tunneling sending electrons through 4D and back again. I have no ego about anything my only goal is add a contribution to my species.
As Einstein said "The only life worth living is on behalf of others." I had to live that way for a time to try it and man is it such an adventure! But of course one must use wisdom in a world of predators or they mistakenly take you for lunch :/)
I can tell you that outside of landing on Mars man will not bother with interstellar travel as depicted in sci-fi. Man will leapfrog to any place in our universe or others in 3D by entering 4D. We soon will be evolving back to energy. But we'll have to get through this tough evolutionary cycle first. But it is exciting the era we are entering in. The Age of Aquarius which in solar cycles began in 2012, ending the Age of Pisces in 34 A.D. Coincidentally, a year after Christ's death.
Yeah well, whatever dude.
So tell me ~ Do they have bullshit authoritarians & Zero Hedge there in the 5th dimension too? I could do without one of them.
& furthermore [had to be said].
You start out the comment talking about THE 5TH DIMENSION and finish off talking about the AGE OF AQUARIUS. Are you sure you aren't just on some mushroom bender from 1969? Or have you been watching Forrest Gump play ping pong too long?
You want to swap some clones?
I think you just ripped off Interstellar.
Pods - Great comment (as per norm). I am in Health Publishing. It requires lots of data mashing. There is a high correlation of individuals with digestive disorders and mental illness.
For super intelligence like Einstein what happens is if your body is not properly metabolizing nutrients into chemicals the brain needs your body will create excess adrenaline to compensate. Adrenaline will amplify beta brain waves. The downside is anxiety disorders, short-tempered nature, moodiness. Nowadays, many of these people are diagnosed as bi-polar.
Such should see an MD to see if they have a digestive disorder or blood disorder as causation which can be treated and psych meds can be minimized.
People have been told to eat grains for 100 years. Problem is we are not cows with two stomachs to process such and this causes many digestive disorders and your not processing the nutrients properly into chemicals your brain needs you will suffer from anxiety which leads to mania, a crash
and depression.
Pyschiatry seems to be the only medical profession to be able to practice on correlation alone with disasterous consequences. Yes Virginia it's all about the money. "Lacking chemicals to the brain" as pyschiatry touts is correlation, not causation.
"People have been told to eat grains for 100 years. Problem is we are not cows with two stomachs"
People have been eating grains for 6,000 years. Until a 150 years ago they ate nothing but grains. Cows eat grass, we don't eat grass.
Cows are not designed to eat grain, especially corn. Humans, pigs, chickens, dogs etc digest food
by dissolving it in HCL in the stomach. Cows, deer, giraffes, bison etc (Ruminants) Have a 4 chambered
bio-reactor that digests thru gut bugs. They chew their food, swallow, then the large pieces are regurgitated and they "ruminate" (chew it again). Ph is neutral. It is designed for Grass only. Go to any commerical dairy or feed lot feeding corn silage in their ration (complete ground corn stalk and ear) Cow "patties" do not exist, the manure is border line liquid. Too much fiber from the corn stalk and inability to digest the corn ear. When the digestive tract of animal is moving thru that quick (basically diahrea) there is limited nutrient absorbtion animals get sick and are pumped with anti-biotics. This doesn't even the consider the effects of GMO corn and lack of sunlight on free stall barns...... We had it right 50 yrs ago. Dry hay in the winter, on pasture all summer.
Corn is a grass.
ZH wont let me upvote you. You must've triggered some internet government propoganda controls.
Yeah ~ It's a secret government program called "italics" ~ LOL
mad props for the Link; I laughed so hard I almost threw up. (for pods. green arrow not working ?).
As well as the art of PsyOp, Propaganda, False Narratives, Mind Control / MK ULTRA via Neuro Linguistic Tech ( Church Comm.)
The Deep State know full well why it good. It's good Because it's works. You can throw in Sublingual messaging into the mix as well.
I met a girl who used sublingual messaging.
She had "Eat Me" tattooed under her tongue.
Biker chicks are notoriusly creative spirits.
Is it better to live like a monster? Or die a good man?
That's a tough one.
I'll have to get back to you on that.
I'm assuming that the monster gets some pretty nice perks?
Current American society is built on a foundation of lies. Every major institution seems to perpetuate those lies including psychiatry/psychology.
Like the old Soviet Union, this house of cards will fall. Eventually, even the stupidest inmates realize they are in a prison.
warp 10 x squared(courtesy of the fed)
money for no production, but power to tell you where to shit.
news flash, i am happier than jame d! ps fuck you jamie
Great quote! I'm with you. I never argue with these mental fascists, I simply reject them out of hand and to their faces. Drives them nuts. Oddly, the authority figures actually believe they have some god given power and authority and are simply knocked off balance by anone who dares to opt out of their powers.
This "new" mental illness is great news. Let's all go on disablity and help bring down the system. The fewer people working and the more collecting free shit, the faster it all ends.
Starve the beast. Wait on some beach somewhere collecting a check. It may be more insance to try to keep producing while every institution is working to drag you down.
That's worth considering.
But in the end I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than to have a frontal lobotomy.
Chancellor: You are in error, Wordsworth. There is NO GOD! (To the crowd) The STATE HAS PROVEN THAT THERE IS NO GOD!!
Romney Wordworth: You cannot erase God, with an edict!
(Crowd is even more in shock at Wordsworth)
Chancellor: You are obsolete, Mr.Wordsworth!
Wordsworth: A lie, no man is obsolete!
Chancellor: You have no function, Mr.Wordsworth. You're an innacuranism, like a ghost from another time....
Wordsworth: I am nothing more than a reminder to you that you cannot destroy truth by burning pages!
Chancellor: You're a bug, Mr.Wordsworth. A crawling insect. An ugly, misformed, little creature, that has no purpose here, no meaning!
Wordsworth: I am a human being....
Chancellor: You're a librarian, Mr.Wordsworth. You're a dealer in books and two cent finds and pamphlets in closed stacks in the musty finds of a language factory that spews meaningless words on an assembly line. WORDS, Mr.WORDSworth. That have no substance, no dimension, like air, like the wind. Like a vacuum, that you make believe have an existence, by scribbling index numbers on little cards.
Wordsworth: I don't care. I tell you: I don't care. I'm a human being, I exist....and if I speak one thought aloud, that thought lives, even after I'm shoveled into my grave.
"Psychothrapist" = "Psycho-the-rapist" when you break it down into its constituent parts.
Bingo. Additionally you cannot reason somebody out of a position they did not reason themselves into. Finally, authority derives its power from the fallacy that might makes right. If might makes right, why is there any attempt to reason at all? If might makes right, authority can simply shoot you, and we already know that those in positions of authority have all the guns, and a legal right initiate force.
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If you ever met a sane psychiatrist
Currently re-reading 1984.
Could not have summed it up better.
2.5 + 2.5= 5
Well they can't diagnose you if you don't talk to them.
Lots of potential ODD candidates here at the hedge - be careful what you write!!
You know what, fuck YOU and the horse you rode in on.
Who are YOU to tell ME what I can and cannot write?!
pods - (shortstop for FEMA camp 93 softball team)
@ pods,
I'm with you 100% pods. A big FUCK THEM!!! Keep ypur powder dry. And, for all ypu pussy Criminal Fraud UNITED STATES, CORP. INC. Scum Fuck & Subsidaries IE. CIA, FBI, DHS, DEA, bring it, don't sing it.
Pussies!
Nobody Lives Forever!!!!!!!!!
De Opresso Liber
Bitchez
Shane Falco: Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory... lasts forever.
That's why girls don't play the game, coach.
The real insanity is that so many people seem to act as though they will live forever. So, they crawl along on their bellies like worms, rather than live as Men.
Newsflash: We're all going to die some day. Do you choose to live the very precious and relatively few days granted you on this earth as a worm or as a man ?
If people Got this - the insanity of this world would end.
The Roman Empire conquered the entire known world; they over-ran England in a few months. Then they got to Scotland. And no further. They built a wall across Northern England from the Irish Sea to the North Sea; to hide behind; to protect themselves from the "Mad Scots"; who would REALLY rather die than submit; and who were excellent at killing romans. So the Empire had a limit after all.
Native American Warrior; "today is a good day to die";
Back in the 90's, I had a friend who knew where to watch the
CIA transports land and unload drugs.
He was a red blooded american patriot and talked about
"borrowing" a stinger from some military buddies and
taking out a plane.
I told him, if you are going to do anything, don't talk
to anyone.
If you are going to do, your STUPID if you talk.
Appearing to be stupid and ignorant is just one tool in the box.
...so many, sadly have only the one, and persist in using it in lieu of reason and common sense
Wrong. if you don't talk to them, you're already diagnosed; look it up.
Szasz on H/C to Head Shrinking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC9r3Gs8XuU
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Szasz/myth.htm
@ freedogger.
If you don't speak to them you are in fact being oppositional. Heads they win, tails you lose!
Tell that to all the Republitards who end up here every time we get linked from Drudge who insist that background checks for the mentally ill "keep the children safe."
You must Believe!
Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Obama!
The only people in medical school who went into psychiatry were the crazies!
Oh yeah, - all the folks indoctrinated into the 'push pills or cut it out in surgery' medical paradigm are sane !
Lets compromise at, "they were crazier"; because they really are. Everyone I've known was nuts.
Get down with ODD. Yah, you know me!
Joe Strummer on authority (quick--as it should be): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mlCwb-5z7c
I'm glad someone gets it, they want to criminalize all of America, so they can take away their rights, and justify paying them nothing...
They also flood the job markets with qualified applicants, so there are 400 qualified people applying for one job, and that's so they can pay little or nothing.
Once people begin to see the system for what it is, they can then begin to formulate a new system, one without the need of fiat money or government control / monopoly over everything, even your mental health, because it's all about profiteering!
looks like youve had a little bit too much to think, citizen. Now turn in your guns, and take this pill...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fn36l_z3WY&spfreload=10
Haha, heehee, I remember that one.. :D
Can I come back and visit this planet when all the humans have gone , it would be so beautifull.
Unfortunately, Psychiatry and Medicine will be key enforcement instruments for the New Reich.
cf. USSR; Hitler's Germany; agree.
Communist everywhere....
Just a 1/2 gram of soma.
Psychiatrists as a group are the craziest people I've ever dealt with; they self-select for the field, by being curious about the weirdness in their own heads. They also have a very, very strong tendency to be Fascist Authoritarians. We could use a lot less psychiatrists; as well as Lawyers.
Quantum Mechanics & Chaos Theory by Hakim Bey
http://hermetic.com/bey/quantum.htm
p.s. During the 'Paleolithic era' leadership was _NON-Authoritarian_
and we are now living in the _Authoritarian_ era. READ the paper
above by Hakim Bey
MasterofUniverse - Nice link! Many scientific minds feel that this existence is holographic, semi-real. I think it is very real. I side with near infinate possibilities occuring near simulataneously in dimensions 2-5. Anyways we would have a lot to talk about if we met I am sure. See you in another plane :/)
I can't understand why more Z/Hers are not examining quantum theory when it comes to what is happening Worldwide in Economics and economies? I agree about infinite possibilities when it comes to Quantum Mechanics, you are right. Never give up on that infinite possibilities factor, Raging Debate. And yes, we do have much to discuss even within the parameters of discourse on Z/H regarding economics and Quantum Behavioural Economics. I wish more on Z/H were Quantum Mechanics oriented. cheers,RD.
When you cross over into the 4th & 5th dimensions, you learn how to spell "infinite" & other important things such as you add salt to beef jerky in an infinate universe, whereas, in an infinite world it'd primarily be considered an antioxidant.
Notwithstanding ~ Both help to give it that nice pink color (which is what makes intradimensional existence so fascinating).
I also believe that our reality is in fact a simulation and it includes every aspect of the observable universe. I also believe that there is only one simulation as running multiple simulations makes no sense as it either implies goal seeking or lack of purpose for such multiple simulations. The way i see it, this simulation is done to test the spirit (soul) and the criteria for failing or passing this simulation (an exam of sorts) is to obey and internalize the natural law and align with God (via Jesus, not the "god is the same but seen and known differently by different cultures;i.e.: you cannot have an equally valid god of judaism and maintain that Jesus and via extension Yahweh/Addonai/Elohim/El-Shaddai are the same). Our tools to make it out of this simulation, and on the winning side, is to use reason and free will, without the scare of death (that is not real ofc, being in a simulation).
One noteworthy thing to remember when thinking about the possibility of simulation is to understand that the universe around us is "real" or made real by our mind and thus countless universes were and are co-existing, via perception. A change in perception triggers a change in the universe. Now we have a problem with co-existing universes, all of them subjective, derived from every single man that has ever existed and how do these universes can co-exist without conflict. To illustrate this possibility i will direct you to the instance system from world of warcraft MMORPG where two or more "characters" can see (perceive) different realities, in the same time and in the same place. This is done via instancing, where a user is taken to a different instance, often without a loading screen. We do the same when we change our perception of the world around us.
I could go on, but for those that think this belief is crazy (oh the irony) what i've written is enough to dismiss me as a lunatic and for the others that don't believe this to be crazy, what i've written is enough.
Shrinks have become a business model. Invent some new mental disorder, demand grant money, labs and staff to "research it further", push drugs, get kickbacks from the drug companies, etc etc etc. Phony as a 3 dollar bill.
All ZH'ers are now officially psychopaths. Bring it Bitchez, bring it!!!
Psychopathology is quite a bit different...
While it may be true that there are some psychopaths here on ZH, most here are not.
While we may be antiauthoritarianist that does not equate to being psychopaths whom have no ability to empathize.
Antisocial Personality Disorder is just one of the many different manifestations of Mental Illness.
In the spirit of this ZH article, and in the discussion of ZH users, it would occur to me that [short of calling them 'psychopaths', Instead, let's call them 'fragile minds'], would be those who found themselves to be compelled to REPORT other users comments & the subsequent actions thereto.
There's actually an easy way to test this theory out [as well as a body of evidence which has been compiled & observed], but I won't get in to all that right now.
The answer to our prayers is a President Biden:
http://tinyurl.com/nxxa45s
Puppets all serve the same function, to act based upon the desires of the Royals...
Or did you miss the Cameron Speech of how the trade agreement will put billions of US Tax Dollars in the pockets of UK Citizens?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rn7aN2sF1o
I've always thought I was a bit crazy, but now I'm nucking futs!
Q: What do muslim terrorists & progressive liberal democraps have in common?
A: Both sets of bastards want to impose their bullshit agenda on the rest of us against our will. Fukem all.
The "rationalists" and the "anti-Semitic irrationalists"An example of how the system builds the profile of the “rational” voter, or, another conspiracy theory if you prefer
Absolutely NO doubt that's what these Criminal Fraud UNITED STATES, CORP. INC. / NSA Pure Evil Psychpaths are doing Psychological profiles, threat assessments & dosiaires of every man, woman & child on the planet to be used for pure Evil purposes / control.
NSA Collects "Millions Of Images" Each Day For Its Facial Recognition Database
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-01/nsa-collects-millions-images-ea...
So the Founding Fathers had ODD???
Yes, and Black Coffee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4odD2Bg1_0
It's just in my mind...
+ 1T
so did MLK, Ghandi and others.... Orwell couldn't have seen this coming...oh wait...he did.
Humans do not question authority.
If we did there would probably be no war.
Humans do question absurdity however. "And they're always looking for answers"... even if the answer is totally false.
You will be labeled insane for questioning absurdity because you will find the world you are living in funny and rather ordinary.
The State doesn't like that either.
How odd..the State has an ego. " And yet even telling it wants doesn't make it go away either."
Maybe there are just too many humans and its time for all of us to go.
Thomas Jefferson did not believe dinosaurs existed not because he didn't believe in the fossils he saw with his own eyes but because he couldn't come to terms with the concept of extinction.
Well..."other humans" have not shown such problems with recognizing said reality...nor of trying to implement it in real times on real terms.
"Tis only human after all."
"Thomas Jefferson did not believe dinosaurs existed not because he didn't believe in the fossils he saw with his own eyes but because he couldn't come to terms with the concept of extinction. "
Citation please.
The first animal which Jefferson discusses in MY copy of Jefferson's 'Notes on the State of Virginia' happens to be the American Mammoth or Mastadon. Although the Natives were reported in 'Notes' to believe these still existed and were threat to them, I know of no particular discussion of the concept of extinction by Jefferson; who seemed to take quite an interest in bones, fossils and the like...
Dinosaur bones weren't discovered until after Jefferson was dead.
Woolly mammoths and mastodons aren't dinosaurs.
So ~ You can't turn them into diesel fuel? LOL
I always knew I was ODD. See you at the fema camps fellow ODDians.
I know it has been brought up before but did we decide on a ZH hand sign for the camps?
No, they had slaves for that...
Or perhaps they had loose nuts in their heads, bolts of lightning between their legs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vWNQJcy5yw
"If You Question Authority, You Are Mentally Ill"
that's what i have been telling myself for years!
If EVERYTHING you've done has led to FAILURE yet you continue to believe that you've been a 'success' doesn't that make you FAR MORE 'mentally ill?'
The CIA missed China going Communist, North Korea invading the South, pretty much everythign in the MIddle East including the fall of the Shah in Iran, Kuwait being invaded by Iraq.... the Soviet Union invading Afghanistan, the Soviet Union collapsing..... 9/11. Yet they believe thye have been a SUCCESSS and are NECESSARY.
Wall Street has screwed up and destroyed more wealth than one can imagine - and has been REPEATEDLY been bailed out - yet they believe they have been GOOD for the world economy and have benefitted the US....
The list of those in positions of power that have been REPEATEDLY and CATASTROPHICALLY WRONG is huge - full of utterly delusional psychopaths who have wrought harm on the world.
Soooooo......... questioning authority - pointing out these CONTINUED AND REPEATED FAILURES makes YOU 'mentally ill'?!?!? WTF?
We've reached peak retard....
Disagree. Retard is just getting warmed up, ready for the liftoff... kinda like how they used to throw a shower of sparks under the space shuttle boosters just to make sure the candles caught fire.
The peak retard transmission has only just shifted into 2nd gear.
4.7 Million Iraqi Refugees in the Iraqi War according to the video on PBS "manifest destiny, the conclusion".
I should have been commited at birth... cuckoo...cuckoo.
Are you down with ODD, I am down with ODD. Fuck AUTHORITY! Molon Labe fuckers!
I'm down with ODD...Yea you know me
Good State Doctor: "Got a case of ODD? Take a totem pole (2 mg of alprazolam) and wash it down with some pure grain alcohol. I would say call me, but you won't care what a phone is!"
ay yi yi!
2mg at a time = no more Candy Crush etc revenues, and we CAN'T HAVE THAT.
O/T here comes the panic buying into the "equity farce" close. Must hold the 200hour avg. before the ECB jawbone opens.
the funniest thing about that is that they also dropped the labels and descriptions of
"paranoid", "Paranoid schizophrenia", and "character disorder with paranoid delusions" from the DSM-5.
Evidently those conditions must now be "normal" since most politicians, newscasters, and police
harbor those symptoms.....
See Dissociative Identity Disorder.
removed
DID is removed? It can't be, half the actors and most the musicians in hollywood suffer from it. Maybe it was just renamed Monarch Programming.
Just think of what humanity will look like in a couple hundred more years.....I'm certainly glad I won't be around for it.
-edit- That is assuming humanity actually does make it that long, right now I'm giving it no better than 50/50 odds.
Reckon less ... if they had the power to do so this would have already have happened to preserve their position.
Now WTF you gonna do with 3+ billion people so nobody noctices. That is their current dilemma. Give it 50 years tops because YOY increasing debt faster than growth globally with an increase in population something will give.
Fingers crossed, may be a close call but I should just miss out on it too.
With the current "goings-on" Worldwide (Ukraine, ME, Far East, seems everywhere these days), and the enthusiasm shown by the West for "War, War, War", the possibility of a major catastrophe (deliberate, or genuinely "accidental") is pretty high.
With all those very-itchy "Nuclear Trigger Fingers", I'd be rating our chances of survival (life as we know it) beyond the end of 2100 as less than 5%, unless "those in command" start behaving like adults, not like 'roided up teenagers.
The problem lies in that it's not the "President" (or whoever) who "does the actual launching" - rather the keys are turned / launches initiated by others, who might easily mis-interpret information (or lack of information owing to failed / compromised C&C systems) as "The Order". This HAS happened in the past, and WILL happen in the future. We've been pretty lucky so far, but relying on "good luck" is not a good survival strategy, especially when Nuclear War might be an "accidental outcome" of even a minor failure.