Hehe, yeah watch out for the "experts" and "authorities" of the psyche known as psychiatrists who mostly just follow the DSM and prescribe medication. I think it's safer now than when it started int he 1800's with lobotomies and other crazy things like pulling teeth out. They still wield much power to make us more docile for conformity like automatons as you say.
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If they make it so that almost all people fall outside the "norm," then lots of people will need "treatment" (note: not healing, but treatment). And that means lots of pharmaceuticals can be dispensed, and lots of therapy hours prescribed... not to mention the entire industry needed to treat the side effects of the psych drugs.
Well another way I see it people aren't aware of how this works. They don't need to apply to everyone, just those pesky non-conformist trouble makers that challenge the status quo or get out of line, and then attribute these lame labels as excuses to silence them. Even though everyone else would technically fall into the same label, they aren't having the label applied because they aren't a subversive to the establishment ;) Those who would look closer/deeper to the substance of the issue, would see past the artificial appearance of its legitimacy and see the fraud.
Just like they did to those pesky non-conformists in the former USSR who "dared" to think communism wasn't the greatest thing ever... clearly, they had a mental illness.
Now we have people who question authority and "the way things are" being labeled as having "Oppositional Defiance Disorder."
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