The Dilemma of Conventional Institutions!

Submitted by sweetmadness on Sat, 03/27/2010 - 11:50pm

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No, your system breeds insanity, in fact the commercial industry thrives on insanity and quick fixes for the false solutions to false illnesses. Too hyper? Your kid has ADD. Too compulsive? OCD. Too moody? Bipolar. Too rebellious? Oppositional Defiance Disorder. Now there certainly are people with minds that were not altogether structured in a way that they could relate. Who are those people? Why don't we see them anymore? Are we helping the people who are truly sick, or are we damaging those who aren't and KILLING the rest?

You watch her eyes go hollow, she watches a screen go over her filtered eyes. The next night she dreams of walking through their minds in a sedated catatonic chemical haze. No faith. No belief in herself. No belief in them, but the edges are soft enough so it doesn't hurt her eyes when she screams.

She believes them. Prescribes to them. They prescribe it to her. She is the product of the INSTITUTION. The institution thrives on its disciples, those who weave the webs of despair and hatred, a hell on earth where peace will never be achievable. Don't say it's not true. Take your medicine dear. She's being drugged up enough just to believe in the faulty goals they propel, she swims on the current of hopes in your false American dream.

A Utopian hope, when in the pits of despair. I'm going to get an education, become a productive member of society...but when push comes to shove the greedy people in this institution have pushed her too far. She takes their violence, their wars, their ideologies, their lies, religious bastards and Gods,

God fearing and God engineering, those who are paternal and right, she swallows it in the form of a placebo. The sugar pill of hope, the sugar pill of a world that doesn't believe in itself. A society gone wrong, an institution in ruins, and a government that is BLIND. Yet don't despair, hope is within yourself. Who are you? Who owns your spirit, and your mind, who owns you now, America?

thoughts concerning your father's beliefs

Submitted by Chas on Fri, 04/02/2010 - 12:03pm.

Hey, I was searching to see what was already up here about Aldous Huxley (before taking time to put something i thought ought to be here--then realizing i had already put it up!) and stumbled across your site.

Reading what you wrote just quickly, my initial feeling is that your father is a product of his "era" in the context of living in a very authoritarian, "devoutly Normal" world. I think that people whom have found ways to survive in such a world (for longer than us) often learn to hold onto their beliefs (which are like a lifeline in the context of rampant alienation, at least when it really comes "right down to it") in rigid ways.

Everyone else around them hold their beliefs rigidly, so people "naturally" just take up that sort of stricture for themselves, not encouraged to think through the ramifications.

As in letting someone they love be free.

When you get older and have kids (?) (or maybe you already have some), you may start to see your father in you as they question your paradigm. Crucial to this seeing is that "each generation" is programmed with slightly different paradigms. It's a curious pattern i've noted over my 40+ years, anyway.

Well, hope this helps.

"As domains of experience become more alien to us, we need greater and greater openmindedness even to conceive of their existence."-R.D. Laing, famous 1970s anti-psychiatrist