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Why do we pretend normal society is functional?

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There are prostitutes, drug gangs and skinhead men roaming the streets in the early hours looking to prove themselves with their fists.

Why are none of these given psychiatric diagnoses?

It seems odd that it's always the people like Autistic people who are seen as odd. What is normal about the way a lot of people behave?

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  • Just thinking of the question: why do we pretend that 'normal' society is functional?

    The word 'pretend' is interesting.

    If we try to catalogue dysfunctional things we come across daily in our lives, the list might be depressingly long and infinitely varied. Those errors, malfunctions of various sorts, mistakes, Kafkaesque dysfunctional policies and practices... We hear in the media but also I am sure at some stage of our life in one way or another we experience unexpected perverse consequences, misguided decisions, unkind and uncaring acts. We all hear about narcissistic self interest, psychopathic abuse, criminal acts, economic crime, negligence. 

    Is human society 'functional', can it be? Often, sometimes, rarely ? ... lol.

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  • Just thinking of the question: why do we pretend that 'normal' society is functional?

    The word 'pretend' is interesting.

    If we try to catalogue dysfunctional things we come across daily in our lives, the list might be depressingly long and infinitely varied. Those errors, malfunctions of various sorts, mistakes, Kafkaesque dysfunctional policies and practices... We hear in the media but also I am sure at some stage of our life in one way or another we experience unexpected perverse consequences, misguided decisions, unkind and uncaring acts. We all hear about narcissistic self interest, psychopathic abuse, criminal acts, economic crime, negligence. 

    Is human society 'functional', can it be? Often, sometimes, rarely ? ... lol.

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