Lay Siege to the Therapeutic State: Unmake Psychiatry | Retaliation Pt.1

"Thus psychiatry represents one of the most dangerous attacks on freedom, and it goes almost unobserved by libertarians, anarchists, and other freedom focused individuals..."

Uhg. This statement is entirely untrue, and really speaks to how little the OP even tried. If OP knew anything about the political ideas he just criticised he would know that Anarcho-capitalists and Anarchists both completely dismantly any possibility of a "therapeutic state" by way of dismantling the state apparatus to begin with. He'd also know that other libertarian, left groups, such as marxists / revolutionary socialists, syndicalists and so on believe the problem in our society regarding the mentally ill is one of a society that cannot adequately treat them. Their criticism being that so long as capitalism exists, and profit is placed before needs, people will suffer, developing illness, and not getting the right care for their illness. They take no issue with psychiatry or psychology at all.

But this is sort of a problem with this "free-thinker" crap anyway. People who think of these things come up with their ideas within a vacuum. They ignore, or aren't exposed to, the everyday, lived experiences of people. They do not consider the real practices of clinicians across the world. They do not consider mortality rates. And they do not consider what has happened to people with illness in communities that reject treatment (such as the notorious cases of the Church of Scientology, certain hippy communes, etc).

Removing it was the right thing to do. If an article like that were posted to a subreddit like /r/bipolar, /r/bpd, /r/depression, etc, it would only serve the purpose of belittling and jarring the users. Posting an article like that to a political subreddit, or a conspiracy subreddit, is the only appropriate submission space.

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