The invention of psychiatry caused the illness in society. Actually its probably not as simple as all that. Perhaps it was the type of human being desired for the machine of the Industrial Revolution, the second age of humanity, which created the need for psychiatry.
Alvin Toffler wrote a book called The Third Wave. I read a little bit about it on the internet. What I guess he said is the next revolution is either information or perhaps ideas.
Technology has allowed humans to be replaced by machines. Rather than scribes manually copying books books are now electronic and exist as ones and zeros until they are printed or read on a display device. Rather than factory workers bashing a metal panel the same way every day of their life there are robots to make cars for Ford.
Psychiatry was the technology which turned people into machines. But the human machines - these automotons - would be disadvantaged in the next great age.
The greatest human power will be the power of ideas. Creativity. The stuff of madness and the stuff psychiatrists have been repressing in the human race for far too long. After The Great Confinement, the period where the mad were put away in asylums, redoubled the illness in society. Then antipsychotics made it even cheaper to suppress creativity and perpetuate the greatest failure in human civilisation.
The greatest failure is not realising that we are all human and we need a society built for all of us. There should never have been a "ship of fools" but they were seen as valueless. The real ship of fools were those in the early prototypes of modern factory life. Because we're all fools and we're all human.
In the Third Wave where ideas are valued psychiatrists would prescribe enthogens or things which enhance the creation of ideas. Drugs I mean. The fun ones. The ones which are currently illegal for their effect on current measures of mental health.
In the future the schizophrenic will be advantaged over the automoton type. Psychiatry would try to give people schizophrenia (the bullshit concept, I.e. the excuse to use antipsychotics) with cannabis.
But I think that would be a shitty future. I think people should be able to be who they are and live how they want to live. All of us.
We need to build a society for all people. We need to heal the illness in society. Dump the disability model and all the science. Listen to your heart. See the value in all of us.
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