All right. How you doing everybody?

It's Famolony from Free Domain.

Let's get to your questions.

Does the modern way of understanding the mind,

primarily through mental illness diagnosis,

obscure the deeper nature of the psyche?

I'm not sure what you mean primarily through the mental illness diagnosis.

I did a show many years ago,

a three-part series on mental health. It is very tough in the world to figure out what is healthy, mentally. I mean, this is an old quote. It is no mark of mental health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. It's really tough to figure out what is healthy. You know, many years ago, probably about 17 or 18 years ago,

I wrote on a free domain forum that I did not believe there were any truly, truly great or good parents in the world. And I'm just, of course,

a ruckus and a firestorm and so on. And I was saying that because there was not the theory of

peaceful parenting and so on in the same way, like were there any really good doctors until

the invention of modern medicine.

I mean, absent the perverse incentives that exist now, until, I mean, I really was until the late 19th, early 20th century, you were actually better off not going to see a doctor.

You had a greater chance of survival if you didn't see the doctor.

You know, leeches in humors and magical spells and all kinds of bizarre snake venom potions and so on.

So were there any really good doctors before there was a scientific theory and practice of, I know, germ theory, antibiotics?

I mean, it took forever for surgeons to even realize that it might be a pretty good idea at some point to actually wash their hands before operating on people.

In fact, the guy who first came up with that idea was harassed, considered insane,

thrown into an asylum, and eventually was beaten to death by an orderly there.

Now, of course, it's accepted that he was totally right, he'll scrub your hands. So until there was a genuinely, you know, first principles valid, non-aggression principle,

healthy theory of parenting, for me it was tough to imagine that there were any really good parents.

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