The Chemical Lobby: Priestcraft Masquerading as Science‏

[sophia-sadek.livejournal.com]

Science and religion appear to be at loggerheads with scientists inquiring into topics that the minions of the material Creator claim as their own domain. On the other hand, there are people who profess to advocate science, but who approach it as if it were a religion. Roman despots are not nearly as detrimental to the pursuit of inquiry as are "scientists" with an economic interest in their pet theories. The latter class of people form a caste of priests who jealously guard the magic formulas for their chemical communion wafers. Scientific inquiry that threatens their monopoly is rejected out of hand and tarred with the label of a Hollywood cult.

Imagine a group of people with little knowledge of electronics. As they investigate the operation of a computer, they discover that interfering with the circuitry causes a malfunction. They establish a "scientific" theory that all malfunctions stem from circuit failures. They find ways to "treat" a faulty machine by inducing a secondary fault that does not fix the machine, but makes the primary fault less striking. The machine malfunctions, but the "treatment" of inducing a secondary fault causes the machine to malfunction in a more graceful manner.

Another group of people approach the machine using a different tack. Rather than trying to determine its failures, they seek to determine its capabilities. These people want to know how to use the computer for higher purposes than as consumers of fault injection methods. They work with it to find ways of improving its use. They modify its programming to have it perform miraculously. Naturally, their successes are sneered at by the fault injection specialists. Improvement in capability can only occur as a result of circuit failure. These highly performing machines are to be treated with fault injections to make them more "normal."

There is more to a computer than electronic circuitry. Likewise, there is more to the nervous system than neurons. This may seem obvious to lay people who espouse the notion of a magical entity that will outlast the decay of the neurons, but it seems counter-intuitive to people who have been indoctrinated into bio-chemical dogma. Of course, there is a third group of people who buy into neither magical craft. These people are faithless in the eyes of the former and unscientific in the eyes of the latter. Some even think of them as followers of L. Ron Hubbard despite a lack of any logical connection.

The pill bottle priesthood is a powerful lobby in the halls of governance. They have ties to the military and to law enforcement as well. Do you have experience with any chemical communion?

Comments

[sophia-sadek.livejournal.com]

In order for me to be paranoid, I would have to fear medical maltreatment for myself. It is the welfare of others that concerns me.

Your glib comeback confirms my original observation.

[meus-ovatio.livejournal.com]

No, avoidance is an important part of paranoia. It is the chief behavioral result of a paranoid psychology. So you feel "safe" from something, because you avoid it. This avoidance, however, may be maladaptive and lead to further behavioral issues- such as avoiding medical care in the first place, which then impacts your health and survivability. The fact that you point to your own syntonic reaction simply speaks to the lack of insight you have to your own condition.

Ironically, I got you to say that everyone has a personality disorder, and yet you immediately reject such notions about yourself. This is also classic, and well-known. Soon I shall have you within my clutches, and prescribe you medicines in order to destroy your brain. There is nothing you can do about it. I'm just that good and that evil.

As an illustrative example, take for instance the obsessive-compulsive who must frequently wash their hands. The act of washing their hands removes the anxiety of fear about disease, for a time. Then the fear re-asserts itself, and the compulsion is once again needed to alleviate the anxiety. You, in this example, are clearly obsessive about mental health, this fear generates anxiety, this anxiety generates the compulsive needs to write about it, and about psychiatry.

In about two weeks, this post will wear-off, and your anxiety will reassert itself, thus prompting another post, either aimed at the clergy or the medical field. The focus of your anxiety is in the adaptive identification of your problem with an organization or institution. This way you can handle it. It alleviates your anxiety, if you can name it. This is, however, a misidentification of a deeper pathology, an unconscious desire to have sex with your father.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

What's your office fee ? :P


I have taken the MMPI, that's a pretty cool test.

[meus-ovatio.livejournal.com]

I don't have an office. I'm a rogue. One major personality disorder diagnosis or your money back. Satisfaction guaranteed.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Does the military do any screening for recruits in general or is it specific to certain areas that are high security? I've wondered about that.

[meus-ovatio.livejournal.com]

I didn't get any screenings. I was never in sensitive positions. Nuclear people get screened, obviously. I don't know what the process is, but they try to avoid having unstable or compulsive people around nuclear missiles.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Friend of mine on a fast attack sub mentioned they had a guy lose it on a six week cruise. They just gave him happy pills and strapped him into his bunk until they got back to Norfolk.

[meus-ovatio.livejournal.com]

Subs are crazy-making I would assume.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

I worked on them, and I got a bit antsy just being on one for 8 hours. Also: most of the guys who are stationed on them are pretty small.

[sophia-sadek.livejournal.com]

It is too bad about your desire to have sex with my father, especially since he has been six feet under for a few decades.

[sophia-sadek.livejournal.com]

Oops! My bad. I should have read your comment more carefully. I thought you were talking about yourself.

[onefatmusicnerd.livejournal.com]

You may want to look paranoia up in your DSM IV again.

You seem to fit the diagnosis to me, but psychology was only a minor field of study for me, and never clinical.

[sophia-sadek.livejournal.com]

I am always looking for ways to improve, so your support would be greatly appreciated. What have I said or done that gives you the impression that I fit a diagnosis of psychosis?