[Prism]

Man is the animal that speaks. Understanding language is thus the key to understanding man; and the control of language, to the control of man.

George Orwell: "All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia."

• Policemen receive bribes; politicians receive campaign contributions.
• Marijuana and heroin are sold by pushers; cigarettes and alcohol are sold by businessmen.
• Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less
• The mind (whatever it is) is not an organ or part of the body. Hence it cannot be diseased in the same sense as the body can. When we speak of mental illness, then we speak metaphorically. To say that a person's mind is sick is like saying that the economy is sick or that a joke is sick. When metaphor is mistaken for reality and is used for social purposes, then we have the makings of a myth
• If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic
• Heresy: believing that the brain should be an organ generating new truths to please its owner instead of reproducing old falsehoods to please the authorities

[Prism]

I figure all us 'right wing fanatics/extremists/radicals' would have an interest in this topic.

"So the whole world is crazy and do not know how to think properly -- except you, is that what you are saying?"

"Well, yea, basically. Except me and a small percentage of the people."

[An actual conversation with someone yesterday]

[T'wit]

I know a Frederick Mann but have no idea whether he would be the author here. Do you know anything about this writer?

[jlogajan]

Thomas Szasz is a genius.

[parsifal]

This is why I love free republic! Where else do you go and find Szasz in a Saturday morning? Talk about lagniappe! BTW, a close psychiatrist friend says most psycho-drugs are prescribed by family practitioners who way over-prescribe.