This answer was part of an already ongoing conversation.
This morning, I watched the video Tim Clancy on "Evidence of Terror Contagion - Role of Experiments, Confidence Building & Testing" https://youtu.be/bPtcWqsp47Q?si=M0Ca9YlTdPjWFk9n.
I do not question the (limited) validity of the
methodology used.
The point is that "solutions" that
intentionally or unintentionally leave out the root causes of problems always
end up benefiting the powers that be.
The DSM
https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm offers an example of
faulted diagnosis methods focused on healing the symptoms, using drugs that, in
many cases, cause more harm than good because they ignore the underpinning
complexity of social, economic, and cultural factors that cause cumulative psycho-affective
disharmony that can degenerate into serious mental problems.
Obviously, there are mental disorders caused by
genuine anatomical, physiological, and functional changes in the neurocognitive
and biochemical neuronal systems.
We must be intellectually honest and take into
account the implicit and explicit structural violence, the glue that keeps
dysfunctional societies afloat.
By diagnosing problems based on
"convenient" parameters to facilitate problem modeling while ignoring
underlying systemic variables, we are not actually solving anything.
My life experience tells me that if we continue
to be stuck in models that only give us partial answers, we are kicking the can
down the road, making the hypothesis of the collapse of civilization more real
with each passing day.
As an alternative, we have a technofascist
transhumanist dystopia that will be sold to us based on the promise of human enhancement,
health miracles, and even immortality.
Converging Technologies for Improving Human
Performance Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology, and Cognitive
Science 2002 edition https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/bioecon-%28%23%20023SUPP%29%20NSF-NBIC.pdf
