Subjugating a people

The human race is made rich through its diversity, not its conformity.
It is made poor by systems which seek to make us homogeneous or oppress
and subjugate those who are judged to be different.

From religious persecution to the oppression of gender or races or
sexuality to the subjugation of slavery to the modern methods of
psychiatry. This is all wrong and humanity's progress is marked not by
the advancement of these systems but their demise.

Today they subjugate people with the idea that behaviour patterns are an
illness. Anything which deviates from a robotic idea of a human being, a
child's idea of what a human being is perhaps, is considered mentally
ill. Extreme sadness is meant to be an illness as is extreme happiness
(mania). Unusual perceptions of reality are the result of a brain
dysfunction and not a gift.

There are extremes of consciousness and behaviour which Western
civilisations have sought to understand and suppress for generations. It
doesn't make these illnesses and it doesn't make the individuals
mentally ill.

We are all made from many things. Genetic predispositions and variances
encoded from our parent's genetic code. Our early learning in whatever
family setting and country we grow up in. Then our experiences in later
life interplay with our biology and psychology and our continuing life
experiences to make us who we are.

The truth is the application of psychiatric science could be used to
establish anything agreed with by the psychiatric hegemony was a mental
illness. This usually happens when the diagnostic criteria is updated,

It first started with the diagnosis and suppression of madness. It was
society which outcast us. It was psychiatry which incarcerated us. It
has continued to do that even with the liberation from the asylum
system. It still hides psychiatric crisis in hospitals and using the
chemical cosh, a powerful behavioural modification tool in pill form.

The drug affects areas of the brain associated with creativity and more
sexual partners. It subdues. It changes behaviour to an acceptable
automoton docility. It is a tool of subjugation in pill form handed out
by doctors.

It suppresses a type of people. It removes their right to exist with
ideas of capacity and insight. This clever trick means no schizophrenic
can say they are not ill and they have a right to exist. That
perspective would be symptom of the illness. They might have the same
thing to a homosexual in the UK in the mid 20th century. Or a black
slave two centuries before.

Drugged and excluded. Psychiatry and society's way to oppress the
mentally ill. They never thought that perhaps accepting that the human
condition includes strange, weird or even people you might not like
might be a better solution. Instead they do the job of a schoolyard
bully enforcing the unwritten laws of children.