Revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (5th) version, , aka the “Billing Bible”, of the American Psychiatric Association is under way. Created by consensus, lobbying and advocacy, the opposite of science, the DSM5 will define many more people as “mentally ill” and open up many more avenues for peddling ineffective psychopharmaceuticals. Labeling is supposed to lead to effective treatment, but it rarely does.
A “rubber room” in New York City is where they keep teachers who are suspended. These folk keep their full salaries before, during and after “disciplinary” hearings. One chap has been receiving his salary, over $100K, as a non-working typing teacher since 2001. Public education needs the money so it can waste it.
from the book: Shadow Dancing on the Grave of Hope:
“The man of system… seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board; he does not consider that the pieces upon the chess-board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislator might choose to impress upon it.” Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Part VI, Section II, Chapter 2.
“Although socialism has never worked, its practitioners are neither discouraged nor discredited.” Thomas Sowell.
The prime belief of socialism, and other theories of government, is that someone has to be in charge of things–everything must be managed. There is no faith in the ability of people to manage themselves or rather, the elite have ultimate faith in their ability to manage others. No matter how hard you hope, a sincere belief is not a fact.
“Whatever you’re doin’ in there, you’re doin’ it wrong and I could do it better.”, Best man’s advice to a honeymooning couple or socialist advice to anybody.
Where faulty paradigms find homes
"There are more Marxists on the Harvard faculty than in Eastern Europe". George Will.
It (religion) is the opium of the people.(Marx)
Socialism is the religion of the university. (Coulson)
Therefore, socialism is the opium of the university.(Inevitable conclusion)
The problem with socialism is the problem of incorrect contingencies.
The problem with the social sciences is that most practitioners operate under socialism.
Thence, the problem with the social sciences is the problem of incorrect contingencies.
There is overwhelming evidence for the grip socialism has on the academy, the hub of superiority, enlightenment and entitlement. Since universities consider themselves the place where elites dwell, the only ones who know the correct direction for society, pronouncements are constantly issuing from them which are so wrong, they are valuable only for their chuckle factor. Consider this quote from Paul Samuelson, in a popular university introductory textbook on economics made in the 1989 edition, published just before the Soviet Union dissolved, from, among other reasons, an inability to make toilet paper, computers, cars, and a variety of other consumer goods. Samuelson said, “The Soviet economy is proof that … a socialist command economy can function and even thrive.” It never thrived, and then, didn’t function. Sales of the textbook continued unabated after this massive predictive failure– a predictive failure, a failure in the easiest of all the scientific steps, not a production failure.
Cheerio and ttfn,
Grant Coulson
Cui Bono–Cherchez les Contingencies
