PHILOSOPHY - Michel Foucault

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Recommends jadedhacker · 2018-05 · on “American society increasingly mistakes intelligence for human worth (2016)”

Yes and no. Check out Foucault. He was a radical philosopher that discussed the treatment of mental health and was a critic of institutionalization. I don't know enough about him to agree or disagree with him, but he is an influential point of view. [this video]

Recommends yurielt · 2021-01 · on “Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people (2018)”

And this is quite honestly a good things. Wait before you downvote. Hear me out the current system is horrible and what it determines as insane people is a product of such system. Back in the Middle Ages when we had a different approach to mental health non neurotypical people were regarded as different, yes but not as garbage or plainly wrong just because of being odd. Instead in some cases they were even regarded as wise as a result of this. Think about alchemy for example something like that could only have been tried by very very mentally ill people and if they weren’t so at the beginning their handling of mercury sure made them crazy after a while. Modern society easily ditched the ment

Cites rgifford · 2021-06 · on “How to Work Hard”

> ...we should think about how we can help more people become successful. It's like you're purposefully missing the point. What if most of serious wealth and success is decided at birth? What are the logical consequences of that? Let's go extreme: A rich guy wins the lottery. He then tells everyone in town how they could've won if they bought tickets. What's your reaction? > Even poor people today live better than kings in the past. I generally agree with this on quantitative measures of productive or technological progress. Other quantitative measures don't look so great: education, housing and healthcare costs; health (esp. mental health) issues in developed vs developing nations; prison p