[lbo-talk] let's argue about the cause of mental illness

[mart]

this sounds like a 'living marxism' POV ('3rd world poverty can be cured by technology---in a much warmer world it will all be buried under rising seas or eliminated via drought).  as for suicide rates, one can go through the data, but one can factor in 'death by cop' as an alternative to suicide or by crew; or 'i wanna be sedated' (ramones) as another technological fix.

   its unconvincing.

    and, as for anti-science, the people who commonly promote this are not uncommonly just PR agents for people who get science grants of some sort.  (if creationism wins, then they get a church, while if science wins we get a conference center with wine and cheese.)

--- On Thu, 8/27/09, Somebody Somebody <philos_case at yahoo.com> wrote:


> From: Somebody Somebody <philos_case at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] let's argue about the cause of mental illness
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009, 2:53 AM
> Suicide rates in the U.S. have been
> on a slight uptick in recent years (5% over ten years ago),
> but they're still much lower than they were up until the
> 90's... when antidepressants began to be widely prescribed.
> I doubt this is a coincidence. The rise in acceptance of
> both talk therapy and prescriptions for mental illness has
> been a progressive historical development. 
> 
> Why leftists would oppose this is beyond me. Just as we
> demand public health care, we should be agitating for public
> mental health care. Instead, we have radicals implicitly
> finding common ground with traditionalists, obscurantists,
> and Scientologists. But, really this is just part and parcel
> of the reactionary anti-technology undercurrent of the
> contemporary left.
> 
> 
> 
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