"There is little I can imagine relating to more? I have a relationship with whatever bipolar disorder is. It is complicated. I’ve written about it before. I think any common condition when we’re talking about neuropsychiatric illness, exists in the population because those same underlying genetics provide an advantage. It might not be an…
"There is little I can imagine relating to more? I have a relationship with whatever bipolar disorder is. It is complicated. I’ve written about it before. I think any common condition when we’re talking about neuropsychiatric illness, exists in the population because those same underlying genetics provide an advantage. It might not be an advantage to the person at the moment, but there is a definite advantage to the gene pool for having some people around who have bipolar disorder. That’s a scientific way of saying we need each other. And we need some people who have big ideas. And sometimes, people who are prone to big ideas can go off the deep end. And then we need to support those people on the way back. Because without them, we don’t have any big ideas. We also need people who support, are even-keeled, and are cautious. It’s that teamwork of humanity that I relate to the most."
This is what I was getting at with a comment to an earlier post. There are lots of philosophers and enthusiastic tech-bros who are totally on board with eugenics, as long as we don't actually murder people. But they want to eradicate "bad genes" from the gene pool, like "mental illness genes".
This is bad. And it is NOT the same thing (as someone claimed in response to me) as inventing new vaccines, medications or other treatment methods.
"There is little I can imagine relating to more? I have a relationship with whatever bipolar disorder is. It is complicated. I’ve written about it before. I think any common condition when we’re talking about neuropsychiatric illness, exists in the population because those same underlying genetics provide an advantage. It might not be an advantage to the person at the moment, but there is a definite advantage to the gene pool for having some people around who have bipolar disorder. That’s a scientific way of saying we need each other. And we need some people who have big ideas. And sometimes, people who are prone to big ideas can go off the deep end. And then we need to support those people on the way back. Because without them, we don’t have any big ideas. We also need people who support, are even-keeled, and are cautious. It’s that teamwork of humanity that I relate to the most."
This is what I was getting at with a comment to an earlier post. There are lots of philosophers and enthusiastic tech-bros who are totally on board with eugenics, as long as we don't actually murder people. But they want to eradicate "bad genes" from the gene pool, like "mental illness genes".
This is bad. And it is NOT the same thing (as someone claimed in response to me) as inventing new vaccines, medications or other treatment methods.