Few weeks ago, I found something mislabeled in a second hand shop. Turned out to be a box full of slides from Vietnam war (1968-1970). I managed to scan around 300. Here its a small selection of somebody's memories I bought for 5,99 🧵
"When the organism is traumatized, it hardens, and stops developing, and wants to impose its moral hardness everywhere; assertiveness is the antithesis of perceptive life, and devises ways to negate it."
— Raymond Peat (2014)
the central lie of modernity is that the world is a large complex system that can only be understood via "trends" and "demographic shifts". the jared kushner "just read 25 books and get the guys in the room" is much closer to the Truth Of What's Really Going on Here.
this is lost on many
mental disorders are at least partly engineered bureaucratic artifacts
they aren't facts of nature to be discovered, they are shifting clusters of behaviors and traits which institutions decide to classify as pathological
diagnosis is as much about social boundary-drawing and cultural salience as it is about underlying neurological/behavioral differences