One of the things I clearly remember him telling me is how gay became normal. It became normalized because the gay lobby would harangue and harass presentations they didn't like at the psychology meetings.
Now, I am all for folks being left alone, but this is why it was normalized.
“Now, I am all for folks being left alone, but this is why it was normalized.”
Insanity has come to signify a psychological concept that is defined by social acceptance. Forget about the nature of reality.
If ultimate reality equates to an individual’s perceptual experience, then the only way to prove an ultimate reality (on any socially acceptable level) is through corroboration by others validating our abnormal behavior as normal.
If I can convince others that my behavior is normal, then I can believe it myself. I found this to be true when working with Lesbian Activists.
Actually, here’s the first sentence of law.com’s lengthy definition of insanity:
“Insanity. n. mental illness of such a severe nature that a person cannot distinguish fantasy from reality, cannot conduct her/his affairs due to psychosis or is subject to uncontrollable impulsive behavior.”
That sure fits many of the crazy cat lady liberal Democrats, i.e. “cannot distinguish fantasy from reality.”
My impression of psychology comes from my time in college at the University of Florida. The College of Psychology was right next to the College of Electrical Engineering where I had classes and also worked in a research lab. There were so many really weird gay men majoring in psychology and many tended to hang out in the bathrooms in the Electrical Engineering buildings, especially on the side of the EE buildings closest to the Psychology building. If you wanted to avoid the gays you had to go to a bathroom on the opposite side of the EE buildings. It was really annoying and made a lasting impression on me.