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[–] sickpusy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Again depression is a modern conception which is a symptom of a society that has erased notions such as melancholia and mourning.

Reference: https://books.google.co.in/books/about/The_New_Black.html?id=8nL823M9X64C&redir_esc=y

The point is that these new ideas pretend that they are all neutral and they have arrived at the truth. In the process the constitue their own subjects who are interpellated in these frames. The people who believe and fall for this new discourses are produced by these new technological and scientific advances. It isn't a truth waiting to be grasped out there.

The point is that alternative routes of making meaning of these phenonemon have been erased and other alternative pathways are blocked by suggesting that this is it.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hey, germs are a modern conception, too, so I guess it would be fine with you if surgeons stopped washing their hands.

[–] sickpusy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There is no analogical reasoning between germ theory and psychiatry. Psychiatry chooses to individualize a problem in however coded manners at the expense of the social. I am honestly quite astounded by the response that transitioning is the only way to be trans nowadays. This echoes the overall codification of queer behaviour the world over where the normative western queer body language now dominated. If you don't behave or are like them you are not queer.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alienated not only from the products of our labour, but increasingly the original tool of our labour; that is, our bodies. That's the likely cause of the ideological cart overtaking the materialist horse when it comes to gender. At least, in my opinion.

[–] sickpusy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

You put it well. Thank you for that clarification.

[–] Historical_General@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How about we decide to do the sensible thing and take advantage of modern medicine??

[–] sickpusy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. Not against modern medicine. While you are at it please also look into the pharma complex which oversells modern medicine.

Of course, but that's the case for medicine in the US across the board. It's not so much a problem elsewhere.