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What are the marks of a sick culture?
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[quote:DaySweeper:MV84NDM4ODNfMjIyMzQzNzRfMkJCQ0EwMzU=] This is a GREAT topic. Here is my view. The hallmark of a sick culture is one that blocks spiritual/character development. Psychiatry, and to a lesser extent psychology in many of it's forms are the biggest demons on this front. They institute a culture of judgement, of looking for "normalcy" and literally disrupting peoples' consciousness with intrusive drugs if they are not classified as normal. The definition of mental illness grows each year, it is broadened again and again, and furthermore there is a HUGE HUGE HUGE industry in selling these drugs. This is the sickest thing in the world so far. In order to develop spiritually there must be birth pangs, there must be a bit of pain at least and peiods of vast confusion. Psychiatry sees these developments and steps in and numbs your mind. It is arresting our development as humans. [/quote]
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"What are the marks of a sick culture?"
. . . abridged (by Bob God) from
Friday
by Robert A. Heinlein:
I took these quotes from one of my favorite Heinlein novels,
Friday
. They are all from a conversation between the main character and her "Boss." That conversation began with Friday's Boss asking her, "What are the marks of a sick culture?"
"It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population."
"A very bad sign. Particularism. It was once considered a Spanish vice but any country can fall sick with it. Dominance of males over females seems to be one of the symptoms."
"Before a revolution can take place, the population must loose faith in both the police and the courts."
Personal rudeness.
... and the number one symptom that we're living in a Sick Culture is -
Bad manners.
That ought to narrow it down for you!
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