Why does everyone have a “disorder” these days?
ADHD, Autism, Depression, BPD, OCD.
Everyone seems to have something.
I was speaking to a DOCTOR yesterday who studies autism (because his Son has it). He believe Autism is massively OVER diagnosed.
Why is this?
The mental Science, Psychology, is the key to understanding this.
Diagnosing someone with a problem is a THINKING skill.
When you show up to a Doctor you present your “symptoms”. The Doctor is trained to take note of these symptoms and then “diagnose” them with a label.
“I can’t make eye contact, I’m hyper focused on weird things like building lego houses, I can’t understand social cues”.
The Doctor is trained to associate these symptoms with a “category”. The above would often imply Autism. This seems logical on the surface.
In reality its not.
You can find a Ted Talk from a while back showing a brain scan of two people with the SYMPTOMS of “depression”. These people would have been “labelled” and likely prescribed the same SSRIs.
Yet, their brains LOOK entirely different.
One is lifeless while the other is over-active:
If you treat both these people with the same SOLUTION you are making a mistake.
The ROOT of their issues are OPPOSITE, but the symptoms that emerge are SIMILAR.
If you then use those symptoms to make a decision you have FAILED to correctly see the problem.
I had an auto-immune disease when I was younger.
Asthma, Eczema, IBS.
My poor Mother spent thousands taking me to specialists and doctors all around Ireland. I feel heavy thinking of it even to this day. She must have felt so powerless I was sickly and sad and she couldn’t help.
This went on for years.
Long drives to hospitals. Weird creams and experimental medications that did nothing.
Years of me crying about looking ugly and diseased and being afraid of going to school. I remember days where she would scream in frustration and have to be by herself.
Later in Life I moved out and changed my diet.
I cut out cereals, sugars, ice creams, and seed oils.
Everything completely went away. It was like a religious experience. Born again as a new person.
I became healthy and began to play sports. I became happy.
At the ROOT of the problem was incorrect dieting. A high fat and protein diet full of probiotics was all I needed.
Yet I lost my whole childhood because no-one ever told Mum this. All her efforts were meaningless despite being the purest Love. She was searching in the wrong place.
I meet a huge amount of people with similar stories. Chronic autoimmune diseases that cost their families thousands in wealth and stress.
One friend had an ongoing kidney disorder that nearly killed him a few times which he cured with going on a Keto diet for one month.
The point here is that treating ROOT causes is extremely effective.
It’s a basic thinking skill: establishing axioms.
Yet, the majority of Doctors don’t do this. They don’t even know what “this” is. They simply obey crude established procedures that largely fail.
This is actually a “symptom” itself of a deeper cultural problem.
All throughout the last Century we’ve slowly been DEGRADING in intellectual capacity. Almost every modern institution displays this crudeness. Simple, elegant, and sophisticated thinking is often counter signalled.
This elegant thinking, again, is “reasoning from first principles”. It is a essential skill for any expert in a problem solving role to possess.
Modern experts are not “thinkers” – they are “labellers”
What you SHOULD do is observe and try to perceive deeper than the surface level into the CORE of what you’re looking at. The often hidden ROOT cause.
What most modern “experts” do is observe things and then crudely slap name tags on them. Our institutions also incentivise this.
This is why everyone has “a disease” these days.
Modern Doctors OVER diagnose people. It doesn’t matter if they’re physical, specialists, or psychiatric. They all love labelling.
It’s a cultural paradigm.
But names, labels, jargon are not reality. This is the entire point.
Labels are designed to simply help us decide what to do. Once you name something it IMPLIES a course of action.
If you label someone depressed the Doctor is trained to offer them SSRIs.
Reality lives UNDERNEATH these shallow names and their associated procedures.
When you can stare deeply and find the ROOT causes, then you can take careful action to deal with them.
These actions are usually so much more sophisticated and accurate that they work in WEEKS.
To illustrate with a very meta example:
The ROOT cause of most disfunction in modern institutions is the inability to reason correct.
- Medicine
- Science
- Education
- Politics
They are all laboured by the weight of midwit supremacists.
At this point these institutions are not “progressing” and they are not “improving” our lives.
They are CAUSING as much sickness and malformation as they are healing. What is most challenging is figuring out how one could reform them.
This is a great political question, which requires intelligent reasoning. So to begin, let’s start with the politics of the Doctors.
A good question is WHO decides which categories should these Doctors use? Who comes up with Autism, BPD, Depression, ADHD? Who makes the jargon?
This is best answered if you study how ancient societies used to organise their CLASS SYSTEMS.
You probably think ancient kings and modern CEO’s rule societies, but you are wrong.
The Brahmins, the Priests, the Intellectuals have always sat ABOVE the warriors in the pyramids of caste.
Why? Well it all comes down to the Psychology of Labels.
Like we’ve already discussed;
Labels give us the ability to order the chaos of reality. When we can categorise, label, or name something, we then can SEE it and also quickly decide what to DO in response to it.
In fact, we like Labels so much that we tend to FAVOUR them over the chaos of “figuring out reality for yourself from first principles”.
This is understandable, it is stressful to have to constantly reinvent the wheel – sometimes its just better to follow the approved path.
But this also means that whoever controls the LABELS of a society has literal supremacy over the PERCEPTION of the entire society.
It is the ultimate source of power. A warrior, a king, a politician, can only live within the playpen of the Labels of his era.
If an arrogant king decided to challenge Christ, the Church, or the Catholic worldview,
If he began attacking the LABELS and JARGON of Catholicism,
He’d be in for a world of intense backlash. He was boxed in by the priests and by their “worldview”.
- The thinking caste
- The category creators
- The worldview managers
These are the true philosopher kings who “shape” society – and especially institutions like health, and education.
This is why Religion was taken so seriously in the past.
Now, this is an ARCHETYPE.
Societies MUST organise themselves along these lines.
Moderns might want to throw away kings and priests, but they CAN’T dismiss Nature. Man will always find his way back to these social shapes.
Despite living in an age of “equality” we STILL have a totalitarian BRAHMIN CASTE who wield this ultimate form of power.
You can tell this CLEARLY, by noticing how moderns treat Doctors with the same unquestioning psychological authority as they used to treat Priests.
This is OK and NORMAL.
Hierarchy and authority is good, it allows for sophisticated organisation. It’s OK that people subvert to authority like this, this is not something we need to reform.
The question is; what is the QUALITY of the authority and how do we manage that?
What is clear NOW is that the Brahmins in our age are not sophisticated. In fact its somewhat of an unconscious conglomerate of midwits tossing around poorly conceptualised academic papers and jargon with aspirations to “reform human nature”.
You can actually walk right into the middle of these modern Brahmins meetings using the internet to research papers and conferences.
It’s like being able to walk into the conferences of the high Bishops in Rome back in the day.
The thing is, you’ll be shocked at how poor these people are at doing their jobs.
These people with “status” to be a “high Brahmin” are usually the “academic” type who were good at “saying the right things in their thesis paper”.
But these are not people who were CRAFTED.
The entire “Expert” class is a botched as the old priestly class, but they’re fumbling in a different direction.
The priest had you kicked out of the town for questioning the sacred book of jargon.
The “expert” has you fired from your job for complaining about their incompetence.
You, as usual, are the one who suffers under these conglomerates of dorks.
But, Dorks are not a destiny. Like BAD kings, there can be GOOD kings – and a GOOD king is an incredibly powerful force for Good.
The same applies to EXPERTS and PRIESTS. They can be accused of being BAD.
What to do about this is a difficult question.
The lack of standards by the current Brahmins are setting themselves up for a Rebellion at the scale of the Protestant revolution against the Catholics.
This will be total chaos, but ultimately necessary to oust Lazy half thinkers.
The solution to this style of Lazy thinking is “critical thinking”.
You always here people pining on about “we need more critical thinkers”.
They are correct, but the problem is that they aren’t usually doing it themselves.
Why? Well, its hard.
A few Centuries ago Western people were WELL educated to be able to do this.
It was known as Liberal or Classical education.
They truly taught you to reason, speak, and think.
Of course this is one of the key things that has died out.
“Liberal Arts” education now is utter junk, its closer to propaganda than education.
What I’m doing with the boyo program is training people in these traditional skills.
When you possess this you can crack open all the nuts the modern world presents.
If you’d like to learn more about this, apply for a free call down below and my teammates will run you through how and WHY we train this!