What Our Schools and Universities Need Today is ...
Once upon a time we had good old magic but then religion came along and spoilt all that fun. Then the decline of religion allowed in the latest magical ideas of a pseudo-scientific psychology and psychiatry. Today we live in a world where we are all mad and bad in some way or another. There are enough ”disorders” today for all of us to live happily.
Take my own case for example. Most of my Sunday hours I do as little as possible. In fact I seek a lazy time. This used to be called ”bone-disease” meaning being bone-idle. I will find any excuse possible to avoid Sunday effort. It is true that this is difficult sometimes. The church is always trying to stop our lazy Sunday whereby the devil makes work for idle hands. But bugger the Church. I prefer to laze around on a Sunday and preferably in bed. Better to work with the devil looking at the latest erotic images or ladies underwear catalogues than go to Church I say. However here it is not only the Church that frowns down upon my sins it is also the damned psychology industry too.
My Sunday sins are really a ”Catch 22”, no win, situation. If I fail to have a hot sexy Sunday I may have that disorder, concerning ladies underwear, which is called ”sexual arousal disorder”. However if I really rebel against such erotic porno images, in an angry way, I remain in trouble because then I suffer from ”absexuality”. Think about this one! Is anybody out there with me in finding all this stuff rather tiresome and really quite silly?
The best question to ask of Psycho-babblers is this: ”What business is this, my life, to you”?
Psycho-words become more and more official and more and more numerous. My Sunday behaviour is really a kind of illness or a disorder. I am rather dysfunctional on a Sunday. I suffer from ”cognitive tempo disorder”. Anyway now that these officials of our latest magical industry have found a diagnostic term for my bone-disease I may consider an application to the Ministry of Health asking for a special pension.
If I get paid for my laziness then I might agree to help out by taking medicines so that big business is happy too. You see everybody benefits in this case. It pays to be officially defined as lazy.
If I can be diagnosed with cognitive tempo disorder I could also avoid those Sunday walks where I am thrown into guilt if I do not walk for an hour, swinging my arms in motion, as if this was to help my overall fitness levels. In fact all this new psychiatry psycho-babble may be just what I need to remain bone-idle.
For the rest of my week I can find labels for almost all of my behavioural traits. If I work hard, get angry, get an afternoon sleep or wake up in the early hours of the morning I can be diagnosed as with this or that disorder. If I use the computer and internet rather much I can find my disorder label easily by surfing the net and looking at the latest psychiatric and psychological definitions. Is that ironic? I’m not sure, but it sure is not funny. Psychologists are not very good at humour.
Anyway I am beginning to believe that the age of magic was much more fun. When the high priests of religion began to take that fun over and then the psycho-babblers became the new high priests the world was full of this and that disorder, full of dysfunctional ”selves” and damned good business for a few ”professionals” in the game. If there is any disaster anywhere then who gets there first, after the police? It is the moral police of course. Psycho-babblers.
In another way I am thinking that it is better to take a grip on many of the Greek Myths when confronting the world where things are difficult and complicated. Greek myths seem to be more reasonable than psycho-babble.
We were warned about this problem many years ago. Not least by a certain Thomas Szasz. This professor warned us about accepting too readily the rhetoric of ”dehumanisation” as given to us by the insane mental health industry. He wrote mainly during the 1960s and 70s but his words remain as a powerful medicine for us today.
What our schools and universities need today are more courses that dialogue the links between mental health and ideology. More courses that can be called Anti Psychiatry and more courses where the Greek Myths are debated.
Why do I say this so firmly? It is because a huge percentage of the mental health industry is sick that is why. Yes this is a very profitable sickness, I agree, but it is, all too often, a most unnecessary sickness of society itself.
Ok that’s it for today I’m just now off to get my Bi-Polar injection. I need a ”hit” of creativity and madness. I need to join this world that is so insane that I need to be mad and bad just to fit in.
I want a trauma, I want a trauma, I want a trama ....
Steve Bowles
