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Constitutional Rights Are Useful Up To A Point, But They Do Not Serve To Guarantee Much More Than What Could Be Called The Bourgeois Conception Of Freedom. According To The Bourgeois Conception, A "free" Man Is Essentially An Element Of A Social Machine And Has Only A Certain Set Of Prescribed And Delimited Freedoms; Freedoms That Are Designed To Serve The Needs Of The Social Machine More Than Those Of The Individual.

The Concept Of "mental Health" In Our Society Is Defined Largely By The Extent To Which An Individual Behaves In Accord With The Needs Of The System And Does So Without Showing Signs Of Stress.

Imagine A Society That Subjects People To Conditions That Make Them Terribly Unhappy, Then Gives Them The Drugs To Take Away Their Unhappiness. Science Fiction? It Is Already Happening To Some Extent In Our Own Society... Instead Of Removing The Conditions That Make People Depressed, Modern Society Gives Them Antidepressant Drugs. In Effect, Antidepressants Are A Means Of Modifying An Individual's Internal State In Such A Way As To Enable Him To Tolerate Social Conditions That He Would Otherwise Find Intolerable.

We Are Not Supposed To Hate Anyone, Yet Almost Everyone Hates Somebody At Some Time Or Other, Whether He Admits It To Himself Or Not.

Those Who Are Most Sensitive About "politically Incorrect" Terminology Are Not The Average Black Ghetto-dweller, Asian Immigrant, Abused Woman Or Disabled Person, But A Minority Of Activists, Many Of Whom Do Not Even Belong To Any "oppressed" Group But Come From Privileged Strata Of Society.