Re: insanity [was: Welcoming Stan Goff Out of Marxism]

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

okay, why don't we use the word "bonkers" to refer to being driven to
distraction or total anger by the conditions one live under and save
"insane" for the legal people? (It's not a psychological term, by the
way.)

On 12/3/06, Doyle Saylor <doylesaylor@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Greetings Economists,
> On Dec 3, 2006, at 8:52 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > Freedom Road branch, which is a particularly cultlike formation -
> > Maoist in the midst of the imperial center, and semi-secretive about
> > membership. It would drive a sane person insane, no?
>
> Doyle;
> Insane is like a box of chocolates, some forms of insane are depressed,
> and others are defuse losses of cognition like alzheimers, and others
> are not well known what is happening like schizophrenia.  So for
> example, if Freedom Road did something abusive which is what you really
> mean, that caused mental issues, what sort of remedy do you suggest?
>
> That possible solution is a bit beyond anything I've seen you say.  It
> would be like saying, a given organization bans x types of social
> connections because the organization 'knows' that will cause insanity.
> Which I think is a fair requirement of organizations because abusive
> behavior is that common conception like the organization might use
> torture to get confessions for example,  but how many organizations
> willingly give up their prerogatives to prevent insanity?  Most prefer
> to exclude the insane and pretend they are not going to harm their
> members.
> Doyle


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