People still blame Reagan for the homeless mentally ill but a) that was 50 years ago, b) it was Kennedy who got deinstitutionalization rolling and c) it was Foucault & the radical Left that demonized psychiatry & involuntary hospitalization, even for psychotic schizophrenics
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I am happy that my friend @clairlemon has published in @Quillette an excerpt from my new book, San Fransicko, on the history of mental illness, and why America in general, and progressive cities in particular, keep failing so miserably in treating it
I was glad to be able to reveal for a general audience how the bad ideas of French historian Michel Foucault, the most influential intellectual among progressives today, contributed directly to today’s immoral non-treatment of mentally ill & addicted people trapped on the streets
Foucault is the most influential intellectual among progressives on issues relating to sex, crime, and mental illness, and so naturally his ideas constituted the big prey I hunt in San Fransicko.
Foucault and his ideas run through the book, and there is a fun swerve at the end.
Foucault and his ideas run through the book, and there is a fun swerve at the end.
I am grateful to be back in @Quillette, the most important magazine in the English language right now. Readers of San Fransicko will discover many common threads including victimology, the “dark triad,” pathological altruism, virtue signaling, @ImHardcory & @JonHaidt
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