/lit/ - Literature

>>16543096
that absolutely sucks, you're right.
Again, I think what we're arguing over here are not the same terms. The status quo is preserved by psychiatry because it smooths out the rough parts, and helps many people who otherwise would not be able to function within the rigid limitations and expectations of our shitty culture begin to align themselves with the margins. This preserves the shitty culture, no doubt.
But it's good at it. They've figured out how to minimize the negative consequences and maximize the response to their treatment strategies, like I outlined in >>16542112, and they're continuing to improve within the paradigm of scientific medicine. The status quo would likely be destroyed if psychiatrists all suddenly disappeared and no new ones were created, but we would lose a lot of loved ones, and a lot of human misery would transpire in the process. Practically nobody is willing to let themselves or a loved one be a part of that mass casualty.
To illustrate my point, I ask you in what reality does "spending time with one's family, enjoying the leisure of youth, studying on one's own time with a personal curriculum" sound like a realistic option? Maybe some trust fund kid or someone who has the disposition to withstand material poverty. Obviously that should be an option, but that's not a problem with psychiatry, that's a problem with the fabric of culture and industry. Psychiatry, civil engineers, anyone who deals with real outcomes is concerned with conditions now, not conditions as they could be. That's why it's so easy to find an anti-psychiatry circlejerk on /lit/, among people who mostly don't have families, careers, or any kind of meaningful skin in the game of the system at large. It's a self selecting group obviously, but it's growing.
I also say this pretty frequently, and people disagree without any experience with psychiatric patients or non-autodidactic review of psychiatric research, but addicts, suicidally depressed, debilitatingly anxious, schizophrenics on track to kill themselves and live miserable lives caked in their own shit and scabies, all would exist in whatever future utopia we create. We would be better at accommodating them and helping them to live full and satisfactory lives, but part of that would have to involve some sort of pharmacological and behavioral therapy. There's a biological basis to these illnesses, however it is worsened by cultural environment, that can never be eliminated until we are able to program people's genes or upload onto computers or some other inconceivable and unlikely change to the fundamental nature of human beings as biological organisms.

>>15581073
Doing my duty and eating the ass of every WOC who requests it (and is hotter than a 7).
Other than that just supporting the labor and workers movement, racism will end once material circumstances allow it. Austerity causes the insecurity which leads to racism's appeal. Improve material conditions for all working class americans- decrease racism.
No amount of relatively wealthy PMC radlibs reading "white fragility" is going to stop racism.
I only have my boots, my arms, my back, and my extremely long and dextrous tongue.