Public spaces = mentally ill spaces? 🤔
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Real public spaces have never been tried
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After napping on this, I’ve concluded it is the natural state. The nature of your civilization is determined by how you deal with mental illness to get away from this state of nature.
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The main choices for what to do with mental illness to break the equation are:
Criminalize it
Export it
Aestheticize it
Impoverish it
Normalize it
Retreat from it
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A moderately well known writer who’s more known for colorful late life antics and sketchy late works—my feel is he was a bit tired and just capitalizing on fame built earlier—actually wrote a significant tome on this entitled Madness and Civilization.


