From: allane@moon.gas.unsw.OZ.AU.gas.unsw.OZ.AU (Allan Evans)
Subject: Re: Lawyers not Chemists
Summary: Mentally Ill, running AMOK!
Organization: University of New South Wales
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 23:38:33 GMT

In article "J" JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu (Jenni Sheehey) points out the folly of
releasing mentally ill people into the world...
> In article sac@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu retorts:
> >Faster than Dan Hillman can say "B.A. in Jungian Psychology"
> >
> >For the life of me though I can't see why anyone would connsider studying, in
> >detail, the inane, alchemeic (Ijust invented that word. Pretty good, huh?),
> >unsubstantiated psychobabbles that are euphemistically called "soft" sciences.
> 
> Peeve: People who don't realize what the world would be like if all of
> the mentally ill people were running about.

*gasp* 

Have you every been to New York? (New Yoik?) Isn't that what *happened*?
Didn't you 'Merkins flush out all the insane asylums a few years back?

Of course in reality it probably reduced the "mentally-fucked-up" quotient
of the real world... especially in L.A., but since I have never been to
L.A. I can only rely on others that tell me that everyone in L.A. is weird.
Come to think of it, everyone I have ever met from southern California 
*was* very weird.

> RelatedPeeve: People who don't realize just how many of those people
> there would be if psychology/psychiatry were as much bunk as they say.

Come, lie down, and tell me about your mother.

> I mean, the depressed ones would probably take care of themselves for
> you,

Sounds like a solution. Sort of like how the Canadian indians were taken
care of in the '50's... fly overhead and drop cases of Rye, automatic
rifles, and ammunition. After a few days things sort themselves out.

> but the paranoid delusionals and schizophrenics and manic
> depressives would be everywhere.

The mother of one of my girlfriends(*) friends is a manic depressive. She
is a Lawyer too... (hmm...) she went to Vancouver and bought three pink
Cadillacs, put the down-payment on a large pink house, and told everyone
she was a princess.

Her husband was not impressed... and had a hell of a time trying to 
return everything (even as lawyers they couldn't afford this shit, they
had the tub and all (see previous "Lawyers vs Chemists thread") but since
everything was mortgaged from their sphincters up to their toupees the 
extra Cadillacs and mansions would have snapped the proverbial straw).

So, where were we:

1) paranoid delusionals... homes: Pentagon, New York, (L.A.?)
2) schizophrenics...       homes: Democratic Party, New York, (L.A.?)
3) manic depressives...    homes: Edmonton, New York (L.A.?)

>  Not to mention the garden variety
> phobic that would cause a 4 car accident because a dog ran across the
> road,

Isn't that why "conspiracy theories" are so popular? I mean, things can't
just *happen*, there MUST be an evil conspiracy controlling things.

> the vets that are still dealing with combat stress disorder, and

There I was in Nam... oh shit! The Gooks are *everywhere*... AAAAAAA!
<ratatatatatat! Blam! Blam! BANZAI!!!!!!>
....
Oops... those weren't Gooks... that was a MacDonalds...

> all of the decent, productive people that wouldn't be nearly so decent
> or productive if they had been left to their own...

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Your grandmother smells of 
elderberries....

> Yeah, you tell me that someday when you're paying someone $150/hour to deal
> with that mass of twisted thinking you call your mind.
> 
>                                                  --Jenni

Hmm. Maybe I should become a Psychologist.

* She may be significant, and she is an "other", but she is also my
  girlfriend and "defacto" (common-law)... isn't sin fun? 

Al
in Oz
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