So foucault hypothesized a connection between the treatment of mentally ill and social order and control. Seemingly unrelated my jurisdiction pays at least 225000 public employees over 100000 dollars each. And there is at least 5000 homeless on the streets of this jurisdictions major city. If each of those public employees took a 500 dollar per year reduction in pay each of those homeless could receive a 30000 dollar benefit.
Since money is not the issue for treating mentally ill people poorly I have to agree with the postmodernists that it has something to do with social order and control in the modern project. My basic thinking on this issue is since the country and jurisdiction I live in was zealous in spreading the modern project worldwide the social controls for that project would still be commonplace.
What is needed in modernity are rational people that respond accordingly to promise of reward for participating as confederates in the project, mostly industry. If money is given to schizophrenics and no general example of utter failure exists for not adopting the modern rational ethos (ie homeless schizophrenics) then a major inducement of the modern project will be subverted.
That schizophrenia is not caused by capitalism or perhaps related to capitalism in any way does not mean it does not serve as an exemplar that accelerates adoption of its rational ethos.
Im having a little trouble following your logical train of thought. I do think that there are serious disparities between those who can function and work at the pace of the low wages/income, and from those who were already wealthy and just had opportunities handed to them.
US esp my home state has a serious child poverty problem. A lot of children end up in foster homes or with relatives. I think much of the root issues of mental illness like trauma, childhood abuse, and having parents with drug problems/dyfunctional home life are also the main reason why society has neglected the role we need to play in helping lift others out of situations.
Not everyone is able to be a genius and cross over the lines into wealth and success. I also think more focused on recovery based on a moral code of humanitarianism and consciousness could evolve the system and not make everyone focused on working to survive, but on working to thrive and build a better cooperative civilization?
It seems to me the key word is confederate in my thinking. This means a person is basically in on the plan and the plan is modernity and for szs confederacy in the moderm project is being treated with modern medicine or not and being an example of otherness
I just want to make a short statement on confederacy. It is sort if an out if date word but it was fairly common in the 19th century. Of course when people think if confederacy they think of the South but Canada is also a confederate country but different although related. Confederation is symbolized in Canada by building the railroad which embodies atleast two senses of the word which means joining together and involving in a plan. The coast to coast railroad was a massive modern project for the time. Of course the entire project of modernity is massive and includes everything from urbanizing to offshoring manufacturing. This is a massive topic but in short confederacy in modernity is taken for granted as it is the prevailing reality which of course creates unquestionable expectations and that relates to social order / control
How confederacy differs from other political systems? You seem to find it more suitable, more modern. I am against all kinds of control. That’s why i live isolated. I can’t stand opression so I basically talk to almost no peoples. Many people find it important the collective thinking of nation as we are all brothers inside a nation and other nations are enemies. Note that I am a child of the universe, not of a nation. i think all kinds of collective group forming to have the component hate. oh, those damn british, those damn japaneses and so on. Hate only brings destruction. the world requires a revolution in thinking for its own survival otherwise it is dommed.
I despise confederacy personally. The treatment I recieved involved confederacy as confederates were involved in watching, interacting, sharing information, conspiring, etc. I find confederacy an insult on individual freedom both as acting as confederates and having to deal with them. Of course a sz can act confederately but usually not possible when symptomatic.
Everything you say about this type of collectivity is on point imo but the purpose of my topic is to talk about the context of social order and how it relates to the postmodern view. Confederacy is an obvious point of criticism of pomo as it is a basic element in social construction. Foucault made reference to terms such as insanity in the modern world and how this changed to mental illness/ health. Insane takes on a certain meaning almost as if classifying someone as completely crazy where most people with disorder are sometimes functional or partly functional. Mental illness creates an impetus for medical treatment so these modern words by meaning play a role in social order and control.
Totally agree. society is opressive and negative. They believe in defects. Who said there is anything negative about it except how some affected people feel, that is said, but there aint no rational reason to negativize it. Or anything for that matter. They tend to be opressive and negative as opposed to openned to the idea of it being a difference and it just is. why judge it and therefore categorize it and worse define it as negative? society thinking is primitive and very harmful to one’'s health. i understand your point of view that is why i hide my condition from society. society collective thinking needed a revolution. thimothy leary proposed people to take lsd because only pshycothropics can really alter someone’s perception of the world around him. society perceives things as positive and negative. they believe in defects. there are no defects in god’s world. there are differences. that is all i am trying to say: differences without judgment but appreciation because differences is what makes the world so interesting.
Difference is utilized in this society for power. Where there is something to improve or make equal or even to reduce difference is used as an argument against whatever possesses the adverse quality. Difference is utilized in governance create two opposing yet stable groups but being too different is handled as a problem. So it is the making of differences as problems and intensifying the view of them as problems instead of accepting as normal difference that contemporary society practices. Example is covid where some places made it out to be a problem and others didnt to lesser degree and the end result is accepting it and ignoring it. To some degree szs would be lucky to escape this type of moral panic