Monday 30 May 2011

The question of preservation of human types

We preserve books. We preserve the bones of animals long gone. We protect the diversity of animal and plant life on Earth. Organisations and institutions exist to serve this purpose.

But what of people and our individuality? Who fights to preserve us and the diversity of human being?

Few. And without those few there would be a terrible tragedy.

These few are those fighting against psychiatry, the engine which seeks to normalise the human race. This machine would flatten Everest for standing too tall and fill the Grand Canyon because all it can see is a hole in the ground.

The human types are a beautiful gamut but beautiful because of diversity, not their sameness. But the psychiatric model applied to this diversity works to make types extinct.

There are many campaign organisations in mental health but none of them give a shit. They use the propaganda of distress which, though relevant, is not really what psychiatry deals with purely. After all, when the APA demedicalise homosecxuality they didn't introduce a diagnosis for the distress of homosexual awakening.

Few truly apply diversity to mental illness. Theparadigm is used to destroy diversity of humans.

We are born with a right to be and a right to be an individual. These rights are circumvented when individuality is an illness.

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