Just as subjectivity is becoming a class privilege, we start hearing this:
We haven’t yet seen but we soon will the people who can’t do introspection because there’s no depth to their inner world. This is being actively normalized by Andreessen and Co. He doesn’t mind sounding like a moron who comes up with the equivalent of “testing your blood sugar causes diabetes” because the payoff is too good.
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If your blood sugar reaches a standardized measurement–one which is incrementally lowered each year–it will qualify one for insurance-covered diabetes drugs.
The analogy to insurance-covered therapy, as the old profs were wont to say, is left as sn exercise for the student😁
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You must not be American. It’s drugs all the way here. Musk is making it clear that therapy is in line to be DOGEd.
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I was talking about the introspection part. I spent the day at an Orthodox retreat, and it was all about introspection.
How can you DOGE therapy? It’s not provided by the federal government, is it? I feel like the federal government is definitely in need of getting therapy not providing it.
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Apparently there was a discussion on twitter about how CEOs have little to no internal dialog. They were purported to have a ‘bias for action’ and ‘high agency’.
I often wonder what the inner life of someone like Elon Musk looks like!
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Everybody who was born before phone-glued mommies became the norm has an inner life that’s just fine.
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Medicare and Medicaid are the only health insurance some people have. Like all insurance, they cover some types of care for mental illness and not others. Most cover limited therapy for some disorders. Even if the private insurance, Medicare or Medicaid, agrees to pay, finding a provider that takes your insurance and has openings is challenging.
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Once you start thinking in terms of “care for mental illness”, you are doomed to pills anyways. The real freedom lies in the direction of realizing that you aren’t diseased. You are reacting to the circumstances of your life, that’s all.
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“care for mental illness”
Within the last couple of years my university has gone crazy with special days for mental health and the like and, no surprise, the number of students with ‘mental health’ issues has exploded (on the surface they don’t seem different from students in the past apart from the trendy new designation).
Whenever I can I ask colleagues why the university is promoting mental illness and they (who are still largely stuck in previous decades regarding… almost eveyrthing) just kind of stare.
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Get this. My university is obligating all department Chairs to attend a day-long training on how to provide urgent mental health care. I told everybody that they are in need of their own mental care if they are going to participate. We are getting trained on how to treat people medically when we have no licence to practice medicine. This is begging for a lawsuit. I’m so not going.
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” attend a day-long training on how to provide urgent mental health care”
I think there have been workshops in real space and online but I just click away as soon as I see ‘zdrowie psychiczne’…
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If they’re offering what they *say* they’re offering, and not just “how to not be weird about it when your friend’s kid died” then that does really sound like something that could get you prosecuted for practicing medicine without a license. The US has seriously weird regulations about that.
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Exactly. That educated people would somehow fail to realize that this is a bad idea is incomprehensible.
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To the downvoter: Please, for the love of all that is good, and for your own legal safety, educate yourself US law about practicing medicine without a license, and examples of prosecution under that law. Whether you think the law is good or just or not: the prosecutions are serious! Please don’t put yourself at risk by not knowing about it!
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If somebody truly thinks that it’s a great idea to involve professors of English poetry and Geometry in providing mental health services on the strength of a day-long workshop, I’d love to hear their explanation why. What’s next? Professors treating diabetes and suturing wounds to save on costs?
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“I go on until I am stopped. I never am stopped. I tell you I am the Man of Destiny.” — Cain Adamson Charles Napoleon, Emperor of Turania, a tyrant of 3000 AD in Bernard Shaw’s “Back to Methuselah”
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LOL ;-D
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I had to google Mark Andreesen to find out who he was because, apparently, I spend more time “introspecting” than paying attention to tech bros. And now I shall go back to not paying attention to him.
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And I support this plan most wholeheartedly.
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