It's Too Easy

Submitted by sweetmadness on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 12:49pm

Mock-Up

Submitted by Hellothere on Sat, 04/04/2009 - 3:48pm.

I am to understand that I am an “I,” sitting in an apartment or habitation built not from me but by builders building it not for their habitation using materials from the earth including trees and fabricated materials like cement. I “rent” this apartment but I “own” the chair upon which the part of “me” called the “buttocks” rests. I drink “water” from the tap which the city grants to me as long as taxes on the property and municipality are paid each month. “I” do not know the source of the water, nor how it came here – i.e. the method or processing it underwent.

“I” am to understand and do that it is 2:45 PM MST on this Wednesday April 1st 2009. “I” know the current and former presidents by name and I am able to spell the word WORLD backwards in my head. In short, I pass the threshold of “normalcy” as defined in a Mini-Psychological-Orientating Exercise.

Yes, I am indeed quite aware of my normalcy in this existence. I know ownership makes the world go-round; I want to own; I know the English language pretty well – though my spelling and grammar are poor; I know that I should want, that it is right and good to want – for this adds my two-cents to the pot to help make the world go-round; I can use a computer and library; I drive a car propelled with petroleum; I swear by electricity conducted out by corporate generators – I could go on and vomit – no – regurgitate further evidence to support my sanity.

Not so fast, says the credentialed success of a Psychiatrist or Psychologist:

“Let the record hereby note this patient, Trilling, underwent clinically rigorous inquiries comprised of multi-layered expositional batteries confirmed as valid measurement instruments unilaterally from institutions, agencies, organizations, interested stakeholders and other such disparate and autonomous entities authorized with the Official Charter to conduct such scientific investigations for the betterment and continued progress of Humankind, on more than two such separately administered disparate Inclusive Extrapolation Examination Batteries conducted at more than one spatial – i.e. institutional location, occasioned over a five year time-span, concurrently conclude patient, T, as being diagnosed Schizo-Affective (Bipolar-Type).

I deny his self-proclaimed sanity by my aforementioned statement, but also vehemently on the more important ground that he does not believe in the truth, accuracy, or legitimacy of his aforementioned statement purported by him to illustrate his sanity. Therefore, if it pleases the Court, I submit a new prognosis/diagnosis that above said patient, T suffers to such extreme a degree of abnormal internalizations warranting the diagnosis of Sociopath."

I retort: “I” know I live in a Free Society, whereby such freedom is guaranteed and upheld by the Constitution. It is a simple read, outlining such Freedoms guaranteed – it is even a relatively short read – those speaking of Civil Liberties especially. Again, I know I live in a Free Society: so long as I know this and believe it. The moment “I” “know” this yet do not believe it – yeah, that I disagree; yeah, that I conclude findings freed from the thoughts/beliefs deemed fit and appropriate “Freedom,” I am a Heretic.

A heretic deemed not by actions, but by thoughts. I am described and understood not by religious precepts, but by those that pass as being scientific.

Let the record show, patient, T, is a Sociopath for holding his above stated anti-beliefs and not expressing them freely.

PC Term – Antisocial Personality Disorder:

(Prognosis is not very good because of two contributing factors. First, because the disorder is characterized by a failure to conform to society's norms, people with this disorder are often incarcerated because of criminal behavior. Secondly, a lack of insight into the disorder is very common. People with antisocial personality disorder typically see the world as having the problems, not him or herself, and therefore rarely seek treatment. If progress is made, it is typically over an extended period of time.)

I retort: Patient, T, “me,” has no public record of incarceration – i.e. – has not been incarcerated. For the record, permit note also of the lack of insight into this disorder, characterized by a failure to conform to societal norms. Ironic that so damning a judgment is meted out by authority claimed a cause of defendant’s internal consternation (the damning diagnostic indicator), when such authority’s legitimacy to mete out judgment rests upon a lack of insight into the disorder when such a “disorder” simply calls into question the tenants and legitimacy of the authoritative methods used by such an authority.

Don’t worry about it! Patient, T, is a Heretic. We say so and he questions us – therefore it is so. Lock Him Up!

Let the retort record show, patient, T, chooses to not freely express my “anti-beliefs" for want of maintaining my “Freedom” as is, constricted though it be.