I fear that eventually drugging anti-authoritarians will become mandatory. Then the authoritative powers will do whatever they want without having anyone question their morals.Some activists lament how few anti-authoritarians there appear to be in the United States. One reason could be that many natural anti-authoritarians are now psychopathologized and medicated before they achieve political consciousness of society’s most oppressive authorities.
What better way to maintain the status quo than to view inattention, anger, anxiety, and depression as biochemical problems of those who are mentally ill rather than normal reactions to an increasingly authoritarian society.
So authoritarians financially marginalize those who buck the system, they criminalize anti-authoritarianism, they psychopathologize anti-authoritarians, and they market drugs for their “cure.”
Yes, they'll sit back and enjoy their money with fine art, food, music and... Oh wait, those things won't exist.
I think he's trying to say that those things wouldn't exist without Antia-uthoritarians.
They are becoming less and less prevalent. Many school have dropped funding for the arts because it's "not a necessity."
Yes, ButterflyEffect is right, that is what I was attempting to say.
My school district has their priorities set: Cut funding from arts and other extracurricular activities, but do not under any circumstances touch the football and baseball budgets. Fortunately I graduated a while ago from there and will not be giving them a dime of my hard-earned money at any point. A future without arts is very bleak.
That's the case with many schools. I'm not sure why the arts are valued less and sports. At their finest, sports are an art (a form of expression). The arts are a necessity in my book.