linguistics

At Ionia State Hospital in Michigan—once a psychiatric institution, now a prison—Black men involved in the civil rights movement were disproportionately labeled schizophrenic, their political rage reframed as psychiatric pathology. Why? Because in 1968, the DSM-II redefined schizophrenia, adding “hostility” and “aggression” as symptoms. Suddenly,... See more

This is the reality: governments, corporations, and media outlets subtly (or explicitly) frame dissenters as mentally unstable—reducing radical thought to a symptom rather than an argument.

The point is: moral standing is a big deal in China...and their framing helps preserve the afflicted individual's moral legitimacy. Rather than being perceived as something foreign, defective, or alien, the patient is reframed as someone whose mind is operating in excess. Their neurotic cognition is simply unable to find a state of contentment... See more

On one level, this reframing makes schizophrenia more legible by integrating it into familiar patterns of thought. The afflicted are no longer seen as incomprehensible anomalies but as individuals who have simply lost their sense of mental balance. They are, in a sense, not centrist enough !

There is a power structure embedded in their language—one that is weaponized for nefarious purposes by constantly invoking symbols of legitimacy to maintain control (also, it’s this part that the left uses like a bunch of superficial and performative idiots)

By positioning those that are vaguely distributed into these categories (woke, postmodern neo-Marxist) as inherently detached from reality, the right effectively renders it unworthy of rational debate, because for them, you don’t debate someone who is psychotic, deranged, or delusional...you manage them, neutralize them, and dismiss them.

Language reveals meaning, and our language around sex is clear. “That’s fucked,” “get fucked,” “I’m so fucked,” and more. Getting “fucked,” or receiving is understood as degrading, debasing, humiliating, something to be avoided. He expands on the notion of hazing, that the man who does the fucking is not engaging in sex, but rather punishment. This... See more