Why can't we accept that mental illnesses are a natural reaction of the human body to the hell that is modern life?

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[–]Jackalope 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

"The concept of mental health in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress." - Ted Kaczynski

You might enjoy reading some of Uncle Ted's work, his 'Industrial Society And Its Future' sounds right up your alley.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/fc-industrial-society-and-its-future

[–]yabbit[S] 4 insightful - 5 fun4 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 5 fun -  (5 children)

I'd rather not end up on a watchlist but thanks

[–]Jackalope 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Understandable. He certainly did terrible things that I do not advocate, I understand why he is stigmatized.

I will say this though, Kaczynski had an IQ of 170 (I know how much you like to talk about IQ), and he was largely right about many things that are wrong with our society.

[–]yabbit[S] 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

He's almost as high iq as I am

[–]LarrySwinger2 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

It's the Internet; you can do anything you want anonymously. Install Tor Browser. (Or use Brave's Tor feature.)

[–]yabbit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

tor was literally invented by the government everything's trackable these days

[–]LarrySwinger2 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The project's funded by the US government, that's true, but that doesn't allow them to magically spy on you. It's still an open-source project and anyone can audit the code. And, in any case, using it doesn't hurt your privacy in any way compared to using Firefox / Chromium. At worst, it can give you a false sense of security. They sure are going through a lot of effort just to give people a false sense of security.

It's comparable to the mission to bury radio receivers in the ground near the border with North Korea: they want to destabilize Asian nations by empowering the citizens with free information. That's the only spook element there is; that's why the government funds it. Meanwhile, we get to benefit from the privacy that it gives us. Tor anonymity isn't water-tight, but it does, by and large, protect you from mass data gathering.