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Replacing therapists with programs is essentially a swap of religions (as therapy ~= confession).
I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords.
Visited a rare books store and found the text that coined the word "autism" (Eugen Bleuler - "Dementia Praecox", 1911). It was $75, too much for me, but I discreetly snapped photos of the relevant pages (which I'd previously tried to find online and failed; German only). Enjoy!
transcribed version for those who are just seeing this! xitter.gq/simpolism/status/13968…
Just transcribed these pages on autism for easier reading: listed.to/@simpolism/25737/e…
Wanted to signal boost the blogging platform / notes app I've been using for several years, @standardnotes. The text editor is great, and the blogging platform looks like this: listed.to/@simpolism
A major sleight-of-hand here is the refusal to clarify the "agent" of selection: "eugenics" presupposes a "top-down" administration of life based on a single set of criteria, whereas common practices such as infanticide were "bottom-up": the family made the decision themselves.
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The authors impute a naturalized, medical logic onto the practice of exogamy, which was never justified for "eugenic" reasons (cf. Freud's discussion in "Totem and Taboo" of exogamy in blood-unrelated tribes). Through this "error", they betray their underlying ethical stance.