A Pentagon study revealed that 77 percent of young Americans do not qualify for military service without a waiver due to being overweight, drug use, or
Makes me think about when capitalism was starting up all these buttresses for it started appearing as well. You had state education because factories needed people who can read basic instructions and follow directions. It was basically the most basic level of job training outsourced to the state. Then you had the criminal justice system. The state needed a place to put the people who wouldn't go along with the system, a way of punishing dissidents and enforcing capitalist values via physical force. You also had all this theory of human behavior pop up around justifying why capitalism was correct and why people who didn't want to participate were dysfunctional. The earliest form of psychology was formed and it fucking sucked. Some people do have medical problems with their brain and mental state. However it also swept up a lot of people who just didn't fit into the values of capitalism. It diagnosed them with problems and locked them away in asylums. It became so commonplace that the science actually formalized and started to diverge somewhat from fulling that function for capitalism. More of a triage discipline to handle the effects of capitalism.
The point is that they still do it. People aren't too fat for the military. They're not too mentally ill. They just don't want to serve a terrible institution that does terrible things in the name of propping up American business. However they need a justification for why they're not getting numbers so they turn to diagnosing everyone as unfit. They're not unfit. The institution is unfit.
The state needed a place to put the people who wouldn’t go along with the system, a way of punishing dissidents and enforcing capitalist values via physical force.
Me vaguely remembering all the history podcasts talking about the "vagrancy" laws in the USA. "Not at work during the day? Well then, off to jail to work in a chain gang."
Makes me think about when capitalism was starting up all these buttresses for it started appearing as well. You had state education because factories needed people who can read basic instructions and follow directions. It was basically the most basic level of job training outsourced to the state. Then you had the criminal justice system. The state needed a place to put the people who wouldn't go along with the system, a way of punishing dissidents and enforcing capitalist values via physical force. You also had all this theory of human behavior pop up around justifying why capitalism was correct and why people who didn't want to participate were dysfunctional. The earliest form of psychology was formed and it fucking sucked. Some people do have medical problems with their brain and mental state. However it also swept up a lot of people who just didn't fit into the values of capitalism. It diagnosed them with problems and locked them away in asylums. It became so commonplace that the science actually formalized and started to diverge somewhat from fulling that function for capitalism. More of a triage discipline to handle the effects of capitalism.
The point is that they still do it. People aren't too fat for the military. They're not too mentally ill. They just don't want to serve a terrible institution that does terrible things in the name of propping up American business. However they need a justification for why they're not getting numbers so they turn to diagnosing everyone as unfit. They're not unfit. The institution is unfit.
Me vaguely remembering all the history podcasts talking about the "vagrancy" laws in the USA. "Not at work during the day? Well then, off to jail to work in a chain gang."
Channeling :parenti: