• Moss [they/them]
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    4 months ago

    "Go to therapy" has become shorthand for "you sound mentally ill and therefore I don't have to listen to you."

    • tamagotchicowboy [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      Its also some class caste thing since if you're high enough on the class stratum you're just a delightful eccentric, nothing wrong at all, but if you're lower on the scale you're a menace and an immediate danger to society.

      • Pentacat [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        You’re right.

        Society is a danger to itself, though. And society is dangerous to its participants.

        Therapy—not as the libs describe it—can help people by normalizing their feelings of alienation and anger.

        • tamagotchicowboy [he/him]
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          4 months ago

          Instead they bring out the alienation to its maximum and then curl and ball and cry at the consequences since libs are terrible at prevention of what they dread. Society esp the bourgeois one makes me think of Buñuel's Film the Exterminating Angel, though the party goers know they must leave the house they can't, some mutually held force (society) that they participate in stops them and makes things unmanageable.