11-14-2017, 12:00 AM
Pixie Dust wrote:
In one sense (perspective) it's true. To be "normal" in a society that is profoundly sick only makes that person sick.
In an alternative sense, it's false. Sometimes it takes a very healthy person to call bullsh*t on the sick version of "normal". Well-adjusted could mean functional and functionality is important when trying to incite change from the norm.
I see the perspective you were coming from. It's logical. I think replacing "well adjusted" with a different word would make it more efficient. Maybe read it as: It is no measure of health to be an enabler to a profoundly sick society." Something along those lines. The imprecision of language gets me.
I see what you mean. I would say though that a healthy person cannot adjust well to a sick society. They can adjust, but they will not have a sense of wellness in such a society. Things will be out of balance. But in this sense, it is an interpretation of what 'well adjusted' means.
(And, if the circumstances /unhealthiness of the society is extreme, I would wonder if one can adjust/ fit in at all, never mind well. But if we went into the realm of warriors, of course, a good warrior would be able to fit in on the outside appearance)
I would argue functional = adjusted. Well adjusted means the individual fits like a glove into the society. And not just outwardly but inwardly - otherwise such a fit would not be possible (unless we go again into some extremely skilled warrior realm).
So, it seems to me both of us have the same idea. We just use language/ the idea differently when we talk.
when I think of the term 'enabler' then it becomes a bit obscured because anyone who goes along with something is an enabler. If a bystander does not intervene in something that is happening their inaction is enabling the thing to happen. In this sense, a person who is not an enabler of an unhealthy society has to act in a way that they try to better the society. In doing so, one must inadvertently be at odds with a part of this society - the part that is not healthy. And then the question is: can someone who is well adjusted to a society be at odds with it?
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The pyjama picture -- I kid you not, that is what I think when I see people in pyjamas
(except I do not call myself stupid)
In one sense (perspective) it's true. To be "normal" in a society that is profoundly sick only makes that person sick.
In an alternative sense, it's false. Sometimes it takes a very healthy person to call bullsh*t on the sick version of "normal". Well-adjusted could mean functional and functionality is important when trying to incite change from the norm.
I see the perspective you were coming from. It's logical. I think replacing "well adjusted" with a different word would make it more efficient. Maybe read it as: It is no measure of health to be an enabler to a profoundly sick society." Something along those lines. The imprecision of language gets me.
I see what you mean. I would say though that a healthy person cannot adjust well to a sick society. They can adjust, but they will not have a sense of wellness in such a society. Things will be out of balance. But in this sense, it is an interpretation of what 'well adjusted' means.
(And, if the circumstances /unhealthiness of the society is extreme, I would wonder if one can adjust/ fit in at all, never mind well. But if we went into the realm of warriors, of course, a good warrior would be able to fit in on the outside appearance)
I would argue functional = adjusted. Well adjusted means the individual fits like a glove into the society. And not just outwardly but inwardly - otherwise such a fit would not be possible (unless we go again into some extremely skilled warrior realm).
So, it seems to me both of us have the same idea. We just use language/ the idea differently when we talk.
when I think of the term 'enabler' then it becomes a bit obscured because anyone who goes along with something is an enabler. If a bystander does not intervene in something that is happening their inaction is enabling the thing to happen. In this sense, a person who is not an enabler of an unhealthy society has to act in a way that they try to better the society. In doing so, one must inadvertently be at odds with a part of this society - the part that is not healthy. And then the question is: can someone who is well adjusted to a society be at odds with it?
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The pyjama picture -- I kid you not, that is what I think when I see people in pyjamas
(except I do not call myself stupid)