December 09, 2004
Dysfunction Junction
What's your malfunction? Handing out pills, diseases, and causes...
Why does every deviance from catatonia anymore cause three clinicians to pop up and declare there is a new disease, disorder, or other malady afflicting the land?
Social science has inflicted an egregious cost on human resiliency. Depressed about the election results? Disorder. Kill your children? Disorder. We've managed to externalize cause, effect, and responsibility from any acts of utter depravity. Human beings are no longer sentient minds, we are mere vessels for various contradictory dysfunctions.
To what do we trace this? Well, several things. Social science is an industry, and like every industry, it craves more product. More things wrong, more things to treat, study, and a new stepping stone to new and more potent maladies. Couple this with a culture nurtured in circles of externalization of human responsibility, and you get an industry ready to tell us why it's not our fault, it's merely our condition.
When a full quarter of children under 18 are taking prescription medication - there is something wrong.
So we inaugurate a new category this day - Dysfunction Junction. Whenever it's not your fault, whenever you cannot participate in a round of responsibility due to illness. And surely for all of those cases where, well, yeah, there is CLEARLY something wrong with you...
Posted by MEC2 at December 9, 2004 09:31 AM