Psychiatry is the science of mumbo jumbo politics as Sociology is the substrate from which both derives their assumption. Right now of course many are mouthing how little I know about either. And in point of fact, I am not aiming at definition in a total sense of same so much as a useful sometimes overlooked critical facet. If you look at the growth of the influence of two of the three, some truisms come to light in terms of historically plot-able facts. The ascendency of both Psychiatry and Sociology was dependent upon the disenfranchisement of longstanding beliefs in the doctrines of major religions that espoused a higher celestial authority. Any concept of ‘God’ had to be extinguished by the most violent and comprehensive way possible. This meant that the generational belief systems ranging back thousands of years that might be seen to be competitive with these new dogmas had to be completely excised from everyone everywhere. What better way than total war upon entire civilizations? The other problem was what to replace these spiritually dismembered beliefs with and that became simple mindlessly based forms of consumerism in which the populations of the earth became the avatars of those who govern. If there had not been an Edward Bernaise, there certainly would not have been a Sigmund Freud.
The engines driving any global inspired society demand that a significant amount of daily energy by tasked to the creation and maintenance to the approximation of plausible life experiences. This runs along the lines of what was portrayed in popular film fictions like “Blade Runner” or “Total Recall”. The ‘replicants’ are obsessed with a custom manufactured personality based upon limited varieties of programmed memories having a fictitious but plausibly life-like believability. This make governing relatively straightforward for even the most entropy prone oligarchies. It becomes merely a case of pushing preprogrammed buttons to get the ‘proper’ most appropriate forms of response from the population. The notion of heroes or role models can take on a literal translation to almost any object or thing rather than stay dependent upon some actual exceptional performance by a real human being. This level of fantasy versus reality is then alternately sorted out at both ends by these two ‘sciences’ so that the populous does not readily know over the long run if they are coming or going. The relieving factor being the introduction of state supported vices and virtues which can equally be interchanged each generation to maintain useful conflict.
With ancient religion, the reckless fervor stirred up within the ‘faithful’ was driven by a positive belief in the afterlife. The modern agnostic social perspective drives forth its sacrificial lambs by mentally redrafting them into cartoon character mentalities that seem to disconnect their reality from the situation. The former counting upon a community of role model martyrs while the latter assuming a number of damaged parts that have to be discarded. The great underlying truth behind the mythos of the efficacy of Psychiatry, is that no one is ever truly cured. They remain just as deficient as they started out as in terms of the point of view of the State, Hence, their perpetual status of illness precludes them from many rights, privileges and confidences that the ‘sane’ would hope to enjoy. As such this form of social moderation is a perfect filter for any behavior seen as aberrant to that sanctioned by the government. The general population is then assessed and sorted out into convenient groups from cradle to grave and the deficient members of same are meticulously weeded out. Consider Utopian Global society as a great unending expanse of weed free perfectly trimmed lawn. As such the ability to accurately tally and classify the most infinitesimal quirks of individual mankind and then feed the ‘good’ bits back to them goes beyond the tyrannical dreams of any aspiring modern Nimrod.