Tell me how I feel
© 2006, Roy Bercaw
ITEM: Psychiatric experts reveal correct emotional reactions to public corruption and faulty construction. (Carolyn Y. Johnson, “Big Dig state of mind,” *Boston Sunday Globe*, July 30)
We lack words to express our emotions, these poseurs say, speaking for “the best brains in the world.” Huh? So is Harvard is the best University in the world?
These psychiatric omniscient egoists alone know how to express emotions. They know who knows what and the proper way to express what they know. Ahem!
The Globe wastes ink on vacuous stories about psychiatrists doing therapy about the failure of government. The missed story is that these people actually believe that they are smarter and morally superior to all others in the society.
Psychiatrists have substantial experience expressing their personal opinions masquerading as science. They analyze society as if it were a homogeneous group of morons. Noam Chomsky calls this “bewildering the herd.”
Here is the elitist view of society. Only superior beings (and who is more superior than psychiatrists?) can tell us what we think and how we feel.
Thanks doctor. Can you describe how I feel about the 75 Boston police officers that failed drug tests? How do the Nepalese feel about global warming?
Am I happy about the way that the Globe wastes my time and tries to keep me ignorant?