Are you accidentally discovering that postmodernists may have had a grain of truth in their analysis? (That they quickly eschewed in favor of forming a secular pseudo-religion but still).
Physician Samuel Cartwright was baffled that slaves tried to escape, so he hypothesized a new mental illness—“Drapetomania”—which became an actual diagnosis in the South. The prescribed remedy was toe amputation. A reminder social science is often slave to prevailing assumptions.pic.twitter.com/5Mm9mLcrtl
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Pointing out the ease with which social science is enslaved by prevailing assumptions is just as much an attack on postmodernism as a defense of it.
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People are just messed up, man.
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Medicine has long been just scientific enough to be worth capturing, while not scientific enough to avoid being captured.
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I've heard of Drapetomania but I didn't know that cutting off the toes was the prescribe remedy. God that is scary.
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But it probably helped. Thus providing "evidence" that it was a reasonable cure for the "disease".
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Čini se da učitavanje traje već neko vrijeme.
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