• idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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    Edit: I read this wrong, pls ignore (leaving up for context for the response)

    You’re right, this is a fucking roller coaster

    Szasz was a critic of the influence of modern medicine on society, which he considered to be the secularization of religion’s hold on humankind. Criticizing scientism, he targeted psychiatry in particular, underscoring its campaigns against masturbation at the end of the 19th century, its use of medical imagery and language to describe misbehavior, its reliance on involuntary mental hospitalization to protect society, and the use of lobotomy and other interventions to treat psychosis.[citation needed] Szasz consistently paid attention to the power of language in the establishment and maintenance of the social order, both in small interpersonal and in wider social, economic, and/or political spheres.

    Dude, to explain why religion is better than science, you chose a “scientific” antimasturbation movement? I hate to break it to you, but the god of Abraham is also famously against onanism.

    But the rest of that is hella based.

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      Criticizing scientism, he targeted psychiatry in particular, underscoring its campaigns against masturbation at the end of the 19th century

      He is criticizing anti-masturbation campaigns, not supporting them

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        Yeah, I misinterpreted that as being pro religion, anti pseudoscientific antimasturbation campaigns, but it’s against both of those. My brain read this:

        which he considered to be the secularization of religion’s hold on humankind

        As this:

        which he considered to be the source of the secularization of religion’s hold on humankind

        Which paints the whole thing in a different light. This whole section is actually green and yellow flags, the red ones are elsewhere.

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          it’s against both of those

          Lol this article is weirdly written. I didn’t notice that either before you mentioned it.