Prometheus 6

I still check my referral logs on occasion. Came across fever 103, who referred me to a Tim Wise article than pisses me off because I'd get lynched if I said such stuff...I will quote below the fold.

It was posted at LiP Magazine , and I noticed the article was originally published by Counterpunch in April, but I couldn't find the original article (I generally prefer that), so I decided to look for the non-printer friendly page. Didn't find that either. I did find enough other stuff to make LiP a probable future stop.

For example:

Author and clinical psychologist Bruce E. Levine, PhD, wants to tell you that depression, discontent, and a whole raft of diagnosed mental illnesses are nothing more than natural responses to the oppression of “institutional society.” In his book, Commonsense Rebellion: Taking Back Your Life from Drugs, Shrinks, Corporations, and a World Gone Crazy, Levine contends that the vast majority of mental disorders are, to put it simply, profit-driven fabrications with no established biochemical or genetic causes. In this day and age, a psychologist arguing forcefully against the entire concept of medication seems odd. Hearing him argue that anger, depression, and dissent are not only normal, but deeply healthy, borders on the bizarre. We interviewed Levine for our web site back in 2001, but now more than ever we thought we could use a strong dose of his crazy talk.

I've often said that some things are foul enough that not getting depressed is a sign of mental illness. The pisser was when Dr. Levine mentioned a "new" mental disability: Oppositional Defiant Disorder, which sounds a lot like Drapetomania. 

I think I'll check out their first audio experiment too.

Anyway, here's some of the stuff Tim Wise said that folks going ballistic.