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Fri. 23/05/12 18:04 EDT
#szasz #thomasszasz #gpt3 #poetry
Hi npub1tsgw6pncspg4d5u778hk63s3pls70evs4czfsmx0fzap9xwt203qtkhtk4 ,
The following is a poem containing the titles of all Thomas Szasz books and also some of Szasz's ideas. I submit this poem, entitled "T.S.S. - Truth's Sweet Sound", both for your further edification and also as an opportunity for you to make any corrections, amendments, or additions, as you deem appropriate.
T.S.S. - Truth's Sweet Sound
Let us now salute a humanist, a valiant libertarian,
iconoclast, psychiatrist, learned writer and contrarian.
To foes and fans, respectively, he brings both Pain And Pleasure,
and for those who mind respectfully, he's an intellectual treasure.
Self-acknowledged friends of liberty are well advised to heed him
if they don't know how psychiatry's a threat to Faith In Freedom.
His detractors deign to denigrate and call him "paranoid"
(a defamatory label slapped on those deemed "Anti-Freud").
He has called psychiatry "quackery" on more than one occasion;
Antipsychiatry: Quackery Squared is just another variation
of this paternalist, determinist, elite epistemology,
institutionalized inhumanity and gravely flawed ontology.
For over fifty years he's dared to speak words most audacious
against The Therapeutic State: those medically mendacious
practitioners of psychobabble and Psychiatric Slavery,
The Manufacture Of Madness and other forms of human knavery;
those soul doctors and inquisitors, who judge both good and badness,
those definers of normality in this, The Age Of Madness.
His Untamed Tongue hurls Heresies against their pompous piety,
and false idols like Schizophrenia: Sacred Symbol Of Psychiatry;
against Ceremonial Chemistry, through which Our Right To Drugs
is politically abrogated by the state's coercive thugs;
against electroshock, lobotomy, outrageous Cruel Compassion,
and chemical strait-jackets, "therapeutically" in fashion.
"It's our intent to save," protests this pseudo-medical profession,
(just like the slave's) the madman's Liberation By Oppression.
The "prescription" is Coercion As Cure for that most disturbing
misbehavior that some other folks are having trouble curbing.
A quick peek inside their Lexicon Of Lunacy is revealing:
They claim "it's for the patient's good" to hurt instead of healing!
In the name game they're the champions, inventive and prolific,
and this game's named "diagnosis"; doesn't that sound scientific?
They say good behavior's healthy, bad behavior's a disease,
and excessive bad behavior's an addiction, if you please!
If you're focused they'll profess that you "obsess compulsively";
if you're not, why then, they'll diagnose a "case" of "ADD."
It’s disease that we prevent and it is crime that we prohibit,
and deciding which response we make starts with the name we give it.
Call expressing one’s own death wish "suicidal ideation,"
and they symptomize a thought - by psychiatric imputation.
The "prevention" of self-killing is what he calls Suicide
Prohibition and, to clarify what doctors have belied,
he points out that, when demedicalizing social power games,
we should start with truthful language: Call things by their proper names.
Sometimes doctor and his patient will use language to deceive;
the semantic antics make it hard to know whom to believe.
For to claim "My Madness Saved Me" all depends on how you spin it;
as manipulative strategy, there's certainly method in it.
In addition to the name game, there's another that they play;
this rendition's called the blame game, and the gambit's to portray
some hapless person as the scapegoat for some other's sin and vice,
and then purge society's problems via ritual sacrifice.
With their force-fed drugs they'll "cure" your "oppositional defiance"
(with both big brother and big pharma have they formed a close alliance).
When they call forced drugging "medication," it's to euphemize
what is poisoning, which wouldn't be permitted, otherwise.
"Mental illness" is the "cause" of your reluctance to admit
you "need" their "help," hence they'll vote to involuntarily commit.
Don't protest that you've been wronged and call it forced incarceration.
Call it "patient's right to treatment"; such semantic innovation!
For, the concept of a human right in true democracy
is rather different now that we've evolved into Pharmacracy.
The Theology of Medicine has replaced theocracy,
where hippocratic absolution leads to health hypocrisy.
Law, Liberty and Psychiatry don't mix well, so pay attention.
Disregarding this has consequences too horrible to mention,
because Psychiatric Justice just is not what you might think;
Adversaries in the courtroom could very well include your shrink!
When the innnocent are "diagnosed," the goal is to accuse;
when the guilty plead "insanity," the goal is to excuse.
In both cases are the concepts of responsibility
and free will negated. Liberty's the final casualty.
And from courtroom now to bedroom, opportunities galore
to exploit what should be private, too enticing to ignore.
Painting sexual behavior as a medical condition
opens up the door to "experts" who will sell Sex By Prescription.
So you think your schooling's phoney? Guess it's hard not to agree,
but it's easier to blame your brain's "unbalanced chemistry,"
or perhaps your chromosomes are slightly "flawed," genetically,
but either way, it's Ritalin to calm "hyperactivity."
It's from his books you'll learn what they don't teach in those psych classes:
That through myth manipulation, men manipulate the masses.
The Myth Of Psychotherapy suggests something's amiss
with what should rightly be The Ethics Of Psychoanalysis.
The Myth Of Mental Illness has persisted by confusing
fact with metaphor, an error that has led to our abusing
first the language, then true understanding, then our fellow man,
and then, finally, freedom. Let's correct this error, if we can.
Doesn't talk of "mental illness" reify The Meaning Of Mind?
Don't concrete and abstract thus become perfidiously entwined?
Is our Fatal Freedom fraught with Ideology And Insanity?
Who controls birth, life and death? Indeed, deep questions for humanity.
So...Insanity: The Idea And Its Consequences makes
a profanity of reason - mind "diseases" are all fakes.
How much further we will tolerate The Medicalization
Of Everyday Life is a question that requires some contemplation.
Eating from the tree of knowledge put us on the path wherein
we commence and take the first steps to commit The Second Sin.
Then, by cultivating clarity in language and in thought,
we can reconstruct the tower the Babylonians once wrought.
Intellectually inoculate with a few Words To The Wise,
as a vaccination for Psychiatry: The Science Of Lies.
In so doing, we protect the things that make our lives worth living,
and to Thomas Szasz, for this truth serum, thanks should we be giving.
T.S.S. - Truth's Sweet Sound
Let us now salute a humanist, a valiant libertarian,
iconoclast, psychiatrist, learned writer and contrarian.
To foes and fans, respectively, he brings both Pain And Pleasure,
and for those who mind respectfully, he's an intellectual treasure.
Self-acknowledged friends of liberty are well advised to heed him
if they don't know how psychiatry's a threat to Faith In Freedom.
His detractors deign to denigrate and call him "paranoid"
(a defamatory label slapped on those deemed "Anti-Freud").
He has called psychiatry "quackery" on more than one occasion;
Antipsychiatry: Quackery Squared is just another variation
of this paternalist, determinist, elite epistemology,
institutionalized inhumanity and gravely flawed ontology.
For over fifty years he's dared to speak words most audacious
against The Therapeutic State: those medically mendacious
practitioners of psychobabble and Psychiatric Slavery,
The Manufacture Of Madness and other forms of human knavery;
those soul doctors and inquisitors, who judge both good and badness,
those definers of normality in this, The Age Of Madness.
His Untamed Tongue hurls Heresies against their pompous piety,
and false idols like Schizophrenia: Sacred Symbol Of Psychiatry;
against Ceremonial Chemistry, through which Our Right To Drugs
is politically abrogated by the state's coercive thugs;
against electroshock, lobotomy, outrageous Cruel Compassion,
and chemical strait-jackets, "therapeutically" in fashion.
"It's our intent to save," protests this pseudo-medical profession,
(just like the slave's) the madman's Liberation By Oppression.
The "prescription" is Coercion As Cure for that most disturbing
misbehavior that some other folks are having trouble curbing.
A quick peek inside their Lexicon Of Lunacy is revealing:
They claim "it's for the patient's good" to hurt instead of healing!
In the name game they're the champions, inventive and prolific,
and this game's named "diagnosis"; doesn't that sound scientific?
They say good behavior's healthy, bad behavior's a disease,
and excessive bad behavior's an addiction, if you please!
If you're focused they'll profess that you "obsess compulsively";
if you're not, why then, they'll diagnose a "case" of "ADD."
It’s disease that we prevent and it is crime that we prohibit,
and deciding which response we make starts with the name we give it.
Call expressing one’s own death wish "suicidal ideation,"
and they symptomize a thought - by psychiatric imputation.
The "prevention" of self-killing is what he calls Suicide
Prohibition and, to clarify what doctors have belied,
he points out that, when demedicalizing social power games,
we should start with truthful language: Call things by their proper names.
Sometimes doctor and his patient will use language to deceive;
the semantic antics make it hard to know whom to believe.
For to claim "My Madness Saved Me" all depends on how you spin it;
as manipulative strategy, there's certainly method in it.
In addition to the name game, there's another that they play;
this rendition's called the blame game, and the gambit's to portray
some hapless person as the scapegoat for some other's sin and vice,
and then purge society's problems via ritual sacrifice.
With their force-fed drugs they'll "cure" your "oppositional defiance"
(with both big brother and big pharma have they formed a close alliance).
When they call forced drugging "medication," it's to euphemize
what is poisoning, which wouldn't be permitted, otherwise.
"Mental illness" is the "cause" of your reluctance to admit
you "need" their "help," hence they'll vote to involuntarily commit.
Don't protest that you've been wronged and call it forced incarceration.
Call it "patient's right to treatment"; such semantic innovation!
For, the concept of a human right in true democracy
is rather different now that we've evolved into Pharmacracy.
The Theology of Medicine has replaced theocracy,
where hippocratic absolution leads to health hypocrisy.
Law, Liberty and Psychiatry don't mix well, so pay attention.
Disregarding this has consequences too horrible to mention,
because Psychiatric Justice just is not what you might think;
Adversaries in the courtroom could very well include your shrink!
When the innnocent are "diagnosed," the goal is to accuse;
when the guilty plead "insanity," the goal is to excuse.
In both cases are the concepts of responsibility
and free will negated. Liberty's the final casualty.
And from courtroom now to bedroom, opportunities galore
to exploit what should be private, too enticing to ignore.
Painting sexual behavior as a medical condition
opens up the door to "experts" who will sell Sex By Prescription.
So you think your schooling's phoney? Guess it's hard not to agree,
but it's easier to blame your brain's "unbalanced chemistry,"
or perhaps your chromosomes are slightly "flawed," genetically,
but either way, it's Ritalin to calm "hyperactivity."
It's from his books you'll learn what they don't teach in those psych classes:
That through myth manipulation, men manipulate the masses.
The Myth Of Psychotherapy suggests something's amiss
with what should rightly be The Ethics Of Psychoanalysis.
The Myth Of Mental Illness has persisted by confusing
fact with metaphor, an error that has led to our abusing
first the language, then true understanding, then our fellow man,
and then, finally, freedom. Let's correct this error, if we can.
Doesn't talk of "mental illness" reify The Meaning Of Mind?
Don't concrete and abstract thus become perfidiously entwined?
Is our Fatal Freedom fraught with Ideology And Insanity?
Who controls birth, life and death? Indeed, deep questions for humanity.
So...Insanity: The Idea And Its Consequences makes
a profanity of reason - mind "diseases" are all fakes.
How much further we will tolerate The Medicalization
Of Everyday Life is a question that requires some contemplation.
Eating from the tree of knowledge put us on the path wherein
we commence and take the first steps to commit The Second Sin.
Then, by cultivating clarity in language and in thought,
we can reconstruct the tower the Babylonians once wrought.
Intellectually inoculate with a few Words To The Wise,
as a vaccination for Psychiatry: The Science Of Lies.
In so doing, we protect the things that make our lives worth living,
and to Thomas Szasz, for this truth serum, thanks should we be giving.
#szasz #thomasszasz #gpt3 #poetry
Hi npub1tsgw6pncspg4d5u778hk63s3pls70evs4czfsmx0fzap9xwt203qtkhtk4 ,
The following is a poem containing the titles of all Thomas Szasz books and also some of Szasz's ideas. I submit this poem, entitled "T.S.S. - Truth's Sweet Sound", both for your further edification and also as an opportunity for you to make any corrections, amendments, or additions, as you deem appropriate.
T.S.S. - Truth's Sweet Sound
Let us now salute a humanist, a valiant libertarian,
iconoclast, psychiatrist, learned writer and contrarian.
To foes and fans, respectively, he brings both Pain And Pleasure,
and for those who mind respectfully, he's an intellectual treasure.
Self-acknowledged friends of liberty are well advised to heed him
if they don't know how psychiatry's a threat to Faith In Freedom.
His detractors deign to denigrate and call him "paranoid"
(a defamatory label slapped on those deemed "Anti-Freud").
He has called psychiatry "quackery" on more than one occasion;
Antipsychiatry: Quackery Squared is just another variation
of this paternalist, determinist, elite epistemology,
institutionalized inhumanity and gravely flawed ontology.
For over fifty years he's dared to speak words most audacious
against The Therapeutic State: those medically mendacious
practitioners of psychobabble and Psychiatric Slavery,
The Manufacture Of Madness and other forms of human knavery;
those soul doctors and inquisitors, who judge both good and badness,
those definers of normality in this, The Age Of Madness.
His Untamed Tongue hurls Heresies against their pompous piety,
and false idols like Schizophrenia: Sacred Symbol Of Psychiatry;
against Ceremonial Chemistry, through which Our Right To Drugs
is politically abrogated by the state's coercive thugs;
against electroshock, lobotomy, outrageous Cruel Compassion,
and chemical strait-jackets, "therapeutically" in fashion.
"It's our intent to save," protests this pseudo-medical profession,
(just like the slave's) the madman's Liberation By Oppression.
The "prescription" is Coercion As Cure for that most disturbing
misbehavior that some other folks are having trouble curbing.
A quick peek inside their Lexicon Of Lunacy is revealing:
They claim "it's for the patient's good" to hurt instead of healing!
In the name game they're the champions, inventive and prolific,
and this game's named "diagnosis"; doesn't that sound scientific?
They say good behavior's healthy, bad behavior's a disease,
and excessive bad behavior's an addiction, if you please!
If you're focused they'll profess that you "obsess compulsively";
if you're not, why then, they'll diagnose a "case" of "ADD."
It’s disease that we prevent and it is crime that we prohibit,
and deciding which response we make starts with the name we give it.
Call expressing one’s own death wish "suicidal ideation,"
and they symptomize a thought - by psychiatric imputation.
The "prevention" of self-killing is what he calls Suicide
Prohibition and, to clarify what doctors have belied,
he points out that, when demedicalizing social power games,
we should start with truthful language: Call things by their proper names.
Sometimes doctor and his patient will use language to deceive;
the semantic antics make it hard to know whom to believe.
For to claim "My Madness Saved Me" all depends on how you spin it;
as manipulative strategy, there's certainly method in it.
In addition to the name game, there's another that they play;
this rendition's called the blame game, and the gambit's to portray
some hapless person as the scapegoat for some other's sin and vice,
and then purge society's problems via ritual sacrifice.
With their force-fed drugs they'll "cure" your "oppositional defiance"
(with both big brother and big pharma have they formed a close alliance).
When they call forced drugging "medication," it's to euphemize
what is poisoning, which wouldn't be permitted, otherwise.
"Mental illness" is the "cause" of your reluctance to admit
you "need" their "help," hence they'll vote to involuntarily commit.
Don't protest that you've been wronged and call it forced incarceration.
Call it "patient's right to treatment"; such semantic innovation!
For, the concept of a human right in true democracy
is rather different now that we've evolved into Pharmacracy.
The Theology of Medicine has replaced theocracy,
where hippocratic absolution leads to health hypocrisy.
Law, Liberty and Psychiatry don't mix well, so pay attention.
Disregarding this has consequences too horrible to mention,
because Psychiatric Justice just is not what you might think;
Adversaries in the courtroom could very well include your shrink!
When the innnocent are "diagnosed," the goal is to accuse;
when the guilty plead "insanity," the goal is to excuse.
In both cases are the concepts of responsibility
and free will negated. Liberty's the final casualty.
And from courtroom now to bedroom, opportunities galore
to exploit what should be private, too enticing to ignore.
Painting sexual behavior as a medical condition
opens up the door to "experts" who will sell Sex By Prescription.
So you think your schooling's phoney? Guess it's hard not to agree,
but it's easier to blame your brain's "unbalanced chemistry,"
or perhaps your chromosomes are slightly "flawed," genetically,
but either way, it's Ritalin to calm "hyperactivity."
It's from his books you'll learn what they don't teach in those psych classes:
That through myth manipulation, men manipulate the masses.
The Myth Of Psychotherapy suggests something's amiss
with what should rightly be The Ethics Of Psychoanalysis.
The Myth Of Mental Illness has persisted by confusing
fact with metaphor, an error that has led to our abusing
first the language, then true understanding, then our fellow man,
and then, finally, freedom. Let's correct this error, if we can.
Doesn't talk of "mental illness" reify The Meaning Of Mind?
Don't concrete and abstract thus become perfidiously entwined?
Is our Fatal Freedom fraught with Ideology And Insanity?
Who controls birth, life and death? Indeed, deep questions for humanity.
So...Insanity: The Idea And Its Consequences makes
a profanity of reason - mind "diseases" are all fakes.
How much further we will tolerate The Medicalization
Of Everyday Life is a question that requires some contemplation.
Eating from the tree of knowledge put us on the path wherein
we commence and take the first steps to commit The Second Sin.
Then, by cultivating clarity in language and in thought,
we can reconstruct the tower the Babylonians once wrought.
Intellectually inoculate with a few Words To The Wise,
as a vaccination for Psychiatry: The Science Of Lies.
In so doing, we protect the things that make our lives worth living,
and to Thomas Szasz, for this truth serum, thanks should we be giving.
T.S.S. - Truth's Sweet Sound
Let us now salute a humanist, a valiant libertarian,
iconoclast, psychiatrist, learned writer and contrarian.
To foes and fans, respectively, he brings both Pain And Pleasure,
and for those who mind respectfully, he's an intellectual treasure.
Self-acknowledged friends of liberty are well advised to heed him
if they don't know how psychiatry's a threat to Faith In Freedom.
His detractors deign to denigrate and call him "paranoid"
(a defamatory label slapped on those deemed "Anti-Freud").
He has called psychiatry "quackery" on more than one occasion;
Antipsychiatry: Quackery Squared is just another variation
of this paternalist, determinist, elite epistemology,
institutionalized inhumanity and gravely flawed ontology.
For over fifty years he's dared to speak words most audacious
against The Therapeutic State: those medically mendacious
practitioners of psychobabble and Psychiatric Slavery,
The Manufacture Of Madness and other forms of human knavery;
those soul doctors and inquisitors, who judge both good and badness,
those definers of normality in this, The Age Of Madness.
His Untamed Tongue hurls Heresies against their pompous piety,
and false idols like Schizophrenia: Sacred Symbol Of Psychiatry;
against Ceremonial Chemistry, through which Our Right To Drugs
is politically abrogated by the state's coercive thugs;
against electroshock, lobotomy, outrageous Cruel Compassion,
and chemical strait-jackets, "therapeutically" in fashion.
"It's our intent to save," protests this pseudo-medical profession,
(just like the slave's) the madman's Liberation By Oppression.
The "prescription" is Coercion As Cure for that most disturbing
misbehavior that some other folks are having trouble curbing.
A quick peek inside their Lexicon Of Lunacy is revealing:
They claim "it's for the patient's good" to hurt instead of healing!
In the name game they're the champions, inventive and prolific,
and this game's named "diagnosis"; doesn't that sound scientific?
They say good behavior's healthy, bad behavior's a disease,
and excessive bad behavior's an addiction, if you please!
If you're focused they'll profess that you "obsess compulsively";
if you're not, why then, they'll diagnose a "case" of "ADD."
It’s disease that we prevent and it is crime that we prohibit,
and deciding which response we make starts with the name we give it.
Call expressing one’s own death wish "suicidal ideation,"
and they symptomize a thought - by psychiatric imputation.
The "prevention" of self-killing is what he calls Suicide
Prohibition and, to clarify what doctors have belied,
he points out that, when demedicalizing social power games,
we should start with truthful language: Call things by their proper names.
Sometimes doctor and his patient will use language to deceive;
the semantic antics make it hard to know whom to believe.
For to claim "My Madness Saved Me" all depends on how you spin it;
as manipulative strategy, there's certainly method in it.
In addition to the name game, there's another that they play;
this rendition's called the blame game, and the gambit's to portray
some hapless person as the scapegoat for some other's sin and vice,
and then purge society's problems via ritual sacrifice.
With their force-fed drugs they'll "cure" your "oppositional defiance"
(with both big brother and big pharma have they formed a close alliance).
When they call forced drugging "medication," it's to euphemize
what is poisoning, which wouldn't be permitted, otherwise.
"Mental illness" is the "cause" of your reluctance to admit
you "need" their "help," hence they'll vote to involuntarily commit.
Don't protest that you've been wronged and call it forced incarceration.
Call it "patient's right to treatment"; such semantic innovation!
For, the concept of a human right in true democracy
is rather different now that we've evolved into Pharmacracy.
The Theology of Medicine has replaced theocracy,
where hippocratic absolution leads to health hypocrisy.
Law, Liberty and Psychiatry don't mix well, so pay attention.
Disregarding this has consequences too horrible to mention,
because Psychiatric Justice just is not what you might think;
Adversaries in the courtroom could very well include your shrink!
When the innnocent are "diagnosed," the goal is to accuse;
when the guilty plead "insanity," the goal is to excuse.
In both cases are the concepts of responsibility
and free will negated. Liberty's the final casualty.
And from courtroom now to bedroom, opportunities galore
to exploit what should be private, too enticing to ignore.
Painting sexual behavior as a medical condition
opens up the door to "experts" who will sell Sex By Prescription.
So you think your schooling's phoney? Guess it's hard not to agree,
but it's easier to blame your brain's "unbalanced chemistry,"
or perhaps your chromosomes are slightly "flawed," genetically,
but either way, it's Ritalin to calm "hyperactivity."
It's from his books you'll learn what they don't teach in those psych classes:
That through myth manipulation, men manipulate the masses.
The Myth Of Psychotherapy suggests something's amiss
with what should rightly be The Ethics Of Psychoanalysis.
The Myth Of Mental Illness has persisted by confusing
fact with metaphor, an error that has led to our abusing
first the language, then true understanding, then our fellow man,
and then, finally, freedom. Let's correct this error, if we can.
Doesn't talk of "mental illness" reify The Meaning Of Mind?
Don't concrete and abstract thus become perfidiously entwined?
Is our Fatal Freedom fraught with Ideology And Insanity?
Who controls birth, life and death? Indeed, deep questions for humanity.
So...Insanity: The Idea And Its Consequences makes
a profanity of reason - mind "diseases" are all fakes.
How much further we will tolerate The Medicalization
Of Everyday Life is a question that requires some contemplation.
Eating from the tree of knowledge put us on the path wherein
we commence and take the first steps to commit The Second Sin.
Then, by cultivating clarity in language and in thought,
we can reconstruct the tower the Babylonians once wrought.
Intellectually inoculate with a few Words To The Wise,
as a vaccination for Psychiatry: The Science Of Lies.
In so doing, we protect the things that make our lives worth living,
and to Thomas Szasz, for this truth serum, thanks should we be giving.