Dammit, there is something here …

A central assumption behind psychiatric diagnoses is that a disease has an objective existence in the world, whether discovered or not, and exists independently of the gaze of psychiatrists or anyone else. In other words, neolithic people had post-traumatic stress disorder as have people in all epochs since. However, the story of post-traumatic stress disorder is a telling example of the role of society and politics in the process of invention rather than discovery.

The diagnosis is a legacy of the American war in Vietnam and is a product of the post-war fortunes of the conscripted men who served there. They came home to find that they were being blamed for the war. Epithets like “babykiller” and “psychopath” were thrown at them by some who had watched on television the US military’s atrocities against defenceless peasants. This reception was a primary factor in the well publicised difficultiessuch as antisocial behaviourthat some military personnel had in readjusting to their peacetime roles.

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The Psychiatrist in his mainstream unrepentant form far from decrying the Vietnam war as unjust makes the Vietnam vet into an unseen figure. This is Rambo mistreated and pushed over the edge until he snaps. Of course picking up the gun is wrong but are we stupid enough to realise why some people do that ?

Far from being a passive act on the part of the Psychiatrist we have a very strong passive-aggressive stance by them using terms like PTSD. In fact far from being passive their acts are highly politicised. In fact they are right in there with the military-industrial complex. This is why ECT was first used on Soldiers after the First World War.

This is soulless. This is the Jackal in Dogon Mythology. An experiment gone horribly wrong. Is the solution there in our world myths ? I think it is. We are led to believe that these horrific acts are banal or just “human nature”. This is the central lie in my opinion. That there is supposed to be no solution. There are answers and if I don’t find them someone else will.

What is it about parts of our modern film and game industries ? Why have they become so obsessed by effects ? While I’m playing a video game I don’t want to be going “amazing models”, or “amazing effects”. I’m so supposed to be so whisked off by storyline and immersion that I don’t know what the fuck is going on !

The same with films. I should not be sat there going “amazing effect”, or “amazing CGI”. I should be whisked off by the narration, the acting and general quality of production. I should not even be aware that I’m sat in a cinema any more so fused with the film I should be ! The same with a game. Look at Quake II, or some other early’ish game creations. They are involving and take you away from this universe into another, just as a good book should do. The engine technology is irrelevant in many ways. We’re in the territory here of pure artistic creation. A gun should feel dangerous. Like it can really kill and hurt and not be some jumping model pumping out effects. Far Cry 2 certainly has achieved much in this area. The lighting model in it is exquisite, but I only noticed that after comparing with a few other games. Actually, in game you don’t notice it. You are just there. The landscape and foliage are set up properly and are artistic. There’s no need for the latest engine technology or shaders, it just works at a level of quality production. This is where Crysis failed on a major level for me. It feels amazing when you run it but it leaves nothing behind. It’s just a sort of plastic experience .. a lot like some of those over blown effects driven movies.

So what’s going on here ? Have we fallen in love too much with the technology ? Partly it’s the commercialisation of Nvidia and EA amongst other companies. They have brainwashed many people into thinking that games are defined by polygon counts and the latest 3D acceleration hardware. So much so that some companies are led into developing, not for storyline or artwork, but in a way that is geared towards being able to quote impressive sounding polygon counts or DX shaders. Seem familiar ? It should do. It sounds a lot like the push in Hollywood towards render farms, digital cameras and even digital actors. Sad really. All it will create is plastic disposable entertainment that is barely enough to provide a quick distraction on a Saturday night.

I think it’s worth remembering that computers are only a tool, not and end in themselves. They are there only to help an artistic experience .. they are not the experience itself.

Downfall. It was the Führer’s birthday. 20th April 1945. In ten days they would commit suicide as Berlin fell around them.

“Mein Fuhrer! The plans to be put into action after your death have been completed!”

“Ja, ja. Das ist gut. Those bohemian fuckers will never forget me! They will believe we fell for forever in this bunker mein commandant !”

Hitler signs the documents.

“Achtung! Herr secretary! Take these signed papers to the I G Farben bunker at once ! Sargent ! Provide an escort !”

So it was that the terrible research that would soon be revealed at the Nuremberg Trials was put into action in a plan missed in the chaos of those days. The world would soon be plunged into a Cold War. There was no time to investigate the post war plans of a dying and dead regime.

<Change of scene to the modern day>

The chemist signed off the last batch of drugs ready for delivery from the new Pharmaceutical factory. It was late and it had been a long day. He said goodnight to his secretary and wandered out to the company car park. He always parked under some trees to keep his car cool. As he fumbled for the key a shadowy figure emerged confidently from the foliage. Oddly he felt no fear despite the recent spate of muggings in the area.

“Hello?”

“You are Doctor Flieschieg ?”

“Yes, what do you want?”

He tensed slightly expecting some kind of attack.

“I am from an organisation. We have some information that you must hear. It is of the highest importance.”

He relaxed. This was no mugging.

“Come. Sit in my car. People will wonder what I am doing speaking to you here.”

“Hello, my name is John. Our organisation is called Friedens Richter. We believe you may be receptive to this information.”

“You have been monitoring me?”

“Your blog ?”

“Oh, that.”

The figure called John (what is this?!) reaches into his coat and removes a small folder.

“These documents contain proof of who we are. We retain strict confidentiality at all times. We will never mention your name. In it you will find the most explicit evidence of what your company is really involved in. We are not a vindictive organisation Dr Flieschieg. We believe in the best in people. They are only misguided. Thankyou for your time.”

Before he could say anything, the figure called John had left, closing the car door softly behind him.

He looked at the folder with an odd feeling of deja vu and forboding. It was time to return home to his wife. This had been an odd sort of evening.

The comedian Bill Hicks called Great Britain a “socialist nightmare” and, 15 years later, I think I’m realising what he meant by those words.

Everything is done for us. If there is a problem the Police are called. Health problem. Doctor or Ambulance. Money problem. Bank. Clothes. BHS. Moral problem ? Self help books. Problem with the mind ? Mental hospital. The entire thing is geared towards a top down approach to treating citizens like naughty children who can’t be trusted to work things out between themselves. A lot like some former East European Soviet satellite state.

Is this why so many people seem so disempowered ? Boring ? Half freakin’ dead ? If I went out onto the street banging a pan shouting about the injustices going on in my society someone would call the police and I would be dragged away ! In South America and other countries people are much more used to getting together and doing things for themselves. The last time this happened here was in the Blitz, over 60 years ago ! Maybe Great Britain will be the last place the revolution that is sweeping this planet will reach. Until then “patient groups” will campaign for cheaper drugs from an NHS that fails to treat most treatable diseases having been sold out years ago to pharmaceutical companies (everyone already knows this I suspect despite the stony silence to such observations).

Our soldiers will continue to be sacrificed in foreign wars that go unexplained. Maybe there is no explanation for them. No convenient conspiracy theory or corrupt minister, just a lot of receipts from the arms insdustry that this country seems to romance .. a bit like The Jackal in Far Cry 2.

Mental patients will continue to be frog marched off to their deaths from “suicides” (read: the drugs killed them) because anyone with a problem must have things done for them, not by the actual society they live in. So apart from the odd kind lady bringing around a casserole for that poor familiy down the street going through a crisis. That will be all you get ! If you can’t survive the social darwinism, then tough. You should have got the state to help you anyway. So like those people from the former East Germany risking their lives going across the East/West wall people trying to escape this crap have become “corrupted by Western decadence” and obviously can’t see the wonderful life that East Germany can make for them.

People will continue to have a great time ! Shopping in their town centers full of commercial messages and mixed advertising telling everyone what a wonderful consumer society they live in. Our schools will continue to be geared towards “careers” rather than telling people what they are … Gods exploring the Galaxy. Unless they are lucky enough to work it out for themselves .. otherwise it’s a life of “careers” and possibly even drugs for you.

The country will continue to fail to notice that the rest of the world is changing around it, making the ultimate solipsistic error of mistaking self for world.

Yes, sometimes I worry about Little England. Will they be able to take it ? Actually I think they will be able to. Once the myth of that “anarchy and chaos” outside of “government control” fades away like a mirage in the desert, then they will find that people power can easily replace “government”. I don’t know what form it would take exactly but isn’t that what makes this fun ?

An old lady comes to the Doctor. She has partial facial paralysis and exhibits unusual movements of her face and tongue. The Doctor diagnoses a blood clot in the brain – a stroke - and refers her for rehab treatment.

Next patient !

A patient on “Treatment X” (a psych drug) walks into the Doctors office. She exhibits partial facial paralysis and unsual movements of the tongue and face. The Doctor diagnoses “side effects” and reduces the dosage and considers swapping to another “Treatment X” drug with sundrie “side effects”.

Duh.

How dumb is this ?

The immune system is closely related to consciousness. It is the immune system that fights off viruses and psychological afflications. Some viruses are known to effect animal behaviour and the way they think about things, even seeking particular food stuffs or environments and situations. In our culture where we eat all the wrong foods. We contend with environmental toxins and pollution. Our immune systems are weakened. The reason I say this is this … what are we letting in when we allow ourselves to get into this state ?

My family, of which I am no longer now a part, drugged me when I six. That left me in a state where I was being psychologically projected onto by a member of my family. I blamed it on myself and sometimes went away and self harmed as a consequence of this (I no longer self harm). Yet I’m left battling psychological afflictions I still have many years later where I’m still blaming the “shift of blame” that someone else was doing, on myself ! This family member would get angry about everything and consequently never find solutions to problems which got worse and were then blamed again on the victims.

A classic cycle of family abuse and break down.

But by how much was health involved ? Weakened immune systems with goodness knows what viruses and pathogens in them ? We like to think we are in control, but nature has an uncanny way of changing the rules when we least expect it. Has my family been under attack because of the sins of my society ? Using pesticides, pollution, bad farming, ignoring the ancient wisdom telling how to live in harmony with nature. We think we can get away with it, and yet we never did. All those “tragedies” and “diseases” .. where do we think they came from ? We’ve become so arrogant we can’t even admit it’s because of what WE have been doing to ourselves and naure … just like my family member blaming everyone else for their failings and mistakes.

What a mess.

Still, she got you good and proper didn’t she .. tee hee. You see you can’t get away with spraying toxins all over her. She will just retaliate. Or put another way .. what we do to the web, we do to ourselves … and that is meant quite literally. Spray toxic pesticides and what do we get … ? Yep .. people are force fed toxic drugs .. based on the chemistry of pesticides. This is exactly what happened with the Thalidomide drugs and other prescription drugs that are based on the chemistry of pesticides.

This has to be stopped ! It is insane ! The so called “mental illnesses” are a lie and a sham. It is this attacking of the web and by definition ourselves that must be stopped.

In her book A Paradise Made in Hell, Rebecca Solnit shows how out of 700 and then 1000 studies of disasters it has been shown that 99% of the time people behave in a rational manner and a humanistic one. Far from the myth of “societal breakdown” we have tales of community and altruism in extreme circumstances.

My Father once stated to be forcefully that “you do realise there is a thin line, Barney, between Society and societal breakdown?” … This key moment came to me while reading this book. It is key to understanding why so many people are prepared to carry out gross injustices against people deemed to be “mentall ill”. People will even drug themselves with extreme “medications” that cause years of hellish health effects if they pick up a hint of “breakdown”. Why ? Well this is it. It’s because of this myth that there is some thin line between a civilised human and a violent animalistic one. This even carries through to a self fulfilling prophecy where we are told that a man “can only take so much” and that “every man has his breaking point”. The accusation being that underneath is some rabid animal just waiting for you to get tired enough for it to break out and cause all sorts of chaos.

A thin line.

Well I’ll give you a line and I draw it in the dust in front of you here and now. This is the line that you cross when you fail to match up what we imagine things are to that of the reality. How dare you not listen. How dare you blithly carry on drugging and maiming with drugs that CAUSE people to act like murderous animals in some cases and then use THAT as a reason that you are right. When the evidence is there to show that there is no “thin line”. It shoes that the best in societies comes out in a disaster, and in the individuals in that society. Far from “stress” … “triggering mental illness”,  you actually come in … notice someone struggling to survive and fight for the best in life and it is YOU who project all your worst ideas about life onto them !

This is the behaviour of the “universal criminal”. That minority that has killed. maimed and tortured it’s way to the top in a competition society where the most brutal minority can smash and grab it’s way to the top so that they can use psychological projection to project what THEY are onto a few poor people called “Schizophrenics” or “Bipolar”, or “Depressed”.

A few months ago someone next door to me lost his temper and started smashing things around. The police vans were there and he was taken away never to be seen again. I get the feeling he was being subjected to this pernicious thought form that attacks some people. It is virulent and repulsive, ramming the worst assumptions about humanity down your throat with no evidence, no alternative and no choice in the matter.

“It’s just the way things are”, it says, or even worse “life is shit”.

NO ! It is YOU who is shit ! Because you never bothered to check the evidence. You never went on to Wikipedia or down to the Library. You just listened to the worst side of yourself and ASSUMED that it was true. In the Christian Religion this is called Sin. Silently manifesting the worst traits of yourself and never challenging them. Everything is always someone else’s fault or is just “human behaviour”.

This thought form … it is a Paper Tiger ! It exists in a Gold Fish Bowl that it assumes is “life” or “human behaviour”. The reality of the outside world appears distorted and intimidating through the glass of the bowl creating a fear filled thought form that looks scary enough. But it is based on nothing because it does not match up with reality (remember that?). It is made of paper .. a Paper Tiger.

http://www.naturalnews.com/027276_Pfizer_drugs_the_FDA.html

Here is a comment from a member of the Natural News site.

IMHO 1.3 billion isn’t enough. The FDA and Pfizer should both be shut down and people should go to prison. That’s what would happen to almost anyone else. We are not dealing with just money here, we are dealing with people’s lives. David Mathis 10/20

Asus EeePC as eBook Reader (fbreader), originally uploaded by barney_holmes.

With fbreader the Eee can be turned into an eBook reader …. easy peesy ! Now it just turns sideways and reading is a lot easier. I wonder if there is an add-on for Firefox to do this for webpages.