Medical Labels for People do NOTHING to Change Society

 https://neurosciencenews.com/hikikomori-isolation-detection-21969/

The above article is about "pathological social withdrawal syndrome" or "hikikomori" in Japanese.  Notice the common practice of coming up with a label for people rather than making any substantial change to the environments and social systems which are root causes of their behavior.  If more and more people are withdrawing from society, then the problem is not the individuals, it is the society.



People are anti-social when their society is anti-people.  We are treated like numbers, livestock, targets, disposable resources, wage-slaves, robotic workers, parasitic consumers, soulless objects, useless eaters, diseased zombies.  We’re given labels like “syndrome”, “disorder”, and “complex”, while the social structure pretends to be so great and have no responsibility.  Why aren’t there labels like “Economic Inequality Syndrome”, “Monetary System Disorder”, or “Media Lies and Division Complex”?  It’s like blaming, labeling, and punishing children for acting out when they are abused and neglected.  Medicating and sending them to therapy does nothing to stop their continued abuse and neglect, and the same is true for adults.

Jobs, governments, hospitals, corporations, insurance companies, banks, armies, schools, religions, commercials, mindless entertainment, most of these do not serve us as much as they prey on us and our time, our energy, our money, our lives.  They use us, lie to us, poison us, steal from us, and treat us very poorly.  This is not just OUR disorder, it is SYSTEMIC disorder.  Our social systems have failed so many, because they are a corrupt, complex mess which are designed to serve those with money more, which does not really mean they deserve or need more than anyone else.

Teachers that are supposed to make us smarter are also lying to us about so many things, because they have been lied to.  Doctors that are supposed to heal us also give us harmful drugs and radiation instead of more safe and natural treatments.  Politicians that are supposed to represent public interests also represent private agendas.  News claims to be honest, true, and factual, while it pumps out propaganda, lies, and limited narratives crafted by people who edit themselves and many other things out of the stories.  Bankers who play with numbers are treated like kings, while farmers who grow food are treated like dirt.  Athletes make a living destroying their bodies for entertainment.  Celebrities with millions of followers are paid to distract and sell things to us while smarter and more virtuous people are censored and ignored.  The list goes on.

From my own personal experience, social services, customer service, health and education services, technologies, governments, media, all of these things have failed me and so many others.  This is why so many of us have checked out of our culture, because so much of it is harmful and negative, and it is actually a positive thing to leave unhealthy relationships.  Or as Jiddu Krishnamurti said, “It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

Rather than just complaining, working toward a better system is more productive.  A resource-based economy is still the best alternative I have seen so far.  And even as nice as The Venus Project's designs look, we can do even better because there are more advanced technologies which exist that have been withheld from the public in order to maintain the status quo.  They are so revolutionary, they transform your thinking just by knowing they exist and how they work!

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