The Fudgel of Psychiatry
An Essay by Christopher Bek
christopher.bek@gmail.com
Summary—This essay asserts that the Canadian people can bring down our behaviouralist government non-violently by simply living in truth.
Quotation—The truth will set you free. —The Bible: John 8:32
Háclav Havel (1936-2011) was a Former President of the Czech Republic, who said that corruption begins when people start saying one thing and thinking another. Havel asserted that people can bring down a totalitarian government non-violently by simply living in truth.
The Divine Right of Kings is a religious and political doctrine asserting that the authority of Divine Kings comes directly from God, and that they are not accountable to any Earthly power, and have the absolute right to rule as God’s chosen representative on Earth. Divine Kings are thus not subject to the will of the people, the aristocracy, or any other estate of the realm. In 2018 I exercised The Divine Right of Kings to the Canadian Governor General Julie Payette. Furthermore, I am again now exercising The Divine Right of Kings in claiming that my essay The Great Cosmic Accounting Blunder Two solves the greatest scientific problem of all time in uniting relativity theory with quantum theory twice—thereby establishing a divine connection between myself and God forever—thus providing the basis for my Divine claim. At this time, I hereby formally surrender my absolute right to rule to the three Canadian Right Honourables—and ask that they recognize me as The Philosophy King Christ, Sovereign of Earth, and Christ 2.0—with no political power—and I be paid the same salary as the Canadian Governor General.
Hypothetical Memo. I recently intercepted a hypothetical memo from Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek to Calgarians: “It has come to my attention that a growing number of Calgarians are wishing to snuff out Christ 2.0 for telling the simple truth. I can certainly understand why all of you want him to stop it, as the simple, beautiful, reasonable, faithful truth does not serve our purposes in Cowtown. After all, we here in Calgary are not interested in verities, only license. But I do not believe that extinguishing King Christ Lloyd Bek is the correct strategy. In my opinion, putting Chris out would be an inefficient tactic, as it does not give us what we want, because he has already achieved critical mass with his Philosophy and Mathematics—and dousing him would only turn him into a Martyr. In addition, how would we even do it? Sure, crucifying him would feel good, but that would be unoriginal. No, I say we exercise all those septillion A’s and B’s Calgarians got in Grad school in being smart about it—and take the high road and follow the Alberta Psychiatrists in our treatment and conditioning of Our Savior’s case. I would admittedly say that their approach to handling Saint Christopher is and has been inspiring for decades, which is to disregard anything he says or writes that is not normal according to our everyday commonsense pedantic values. Whatsoever he purports beyond three standard deviations from the mean—just pretend that he did not say it. Easy peasy. After all, he does not even have a Masters or a PhD. In following the Alberta Psychiatrists, we must endeavour to cancel, normalize, and placate Christ, and never miss an opportunity to drag him down into our literal, deterministic, pedantic lair. After all, we do not pay Alberta Psychiatrists $270,000 a year for nothing. So, what if we lie to Christ? It is of paramount importance to remember the greater good, embodied by the Philosophy of the Vulcans on the TV show Star Trek, stylized to us: The needs of the many outweigh the needs of The One. One is then presently reminded of that poignant 1975 Canadian film: Lies My Father Told Me, or of what the Indian Rudyard Kipling said: If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.”
Bad Behaviorism is arguably the currently employed psychology in Canada, as set forth by BF Skinner, JB Watson, and IP Pavlov, concerned only with observable behavior and environmental stimuli. The theory contends that behavior follows deterministically from past experiences and conditioning, rather than through acts of freewill—seeing human behavior as entirely determined by genetics and environment. A Google search reveals Skinner was the most influential psychologist of the 20th century and, as for the 21th century, I would cite FSC Northrop, who wrote: “If one makes a false or superficial beginning, no matter how rigorous the methods that follow, the initial error will never be corrected.” Notably, all of Pavlov, Watson, and Skinner based their psychology on the study of animals, whereas existentialism places human subjectivity at the top of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs alongside self-actualization—the process of reaching one’s full potential through personal growth, creativity, and self-fulfillment. I would argue that the behaviourism of Canada largely satisfies lower hierarchy of needs, but violently opposes the higher self-actualization—whereas existentialism holds high the self-actualization and self-awareness found in Kierkegaard’s Knight of Faith, Socrates’ Know Thyself, and Descartes’ Cogito.
Existentialism Now is the philosophy set forth by the likes of Socrates, Saint Augustine, Saint Aquinas, René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, William Shakespeare, Søren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir. It emphasizes the individual subjective experiences of freewill and choice in taking personal freedom and responsibility, which are both empowering and burdensome. Existentialism challenges man to share in creation with God by taking total freedom and total responsibility for the world—in spite of its apparent absurdity. It calls upon us to act authentically when doing our duty in accordance with the inner focus of our true inner subjective self—always in relation to God. Bad faith is the refusal to confront facts or choices. Self-deception involves deceiving oneself by ignoring or rationalizing away evidence that contradicts beliefs, and can also involve convincing oneself of false beliefs or lack of truth in order to avoid acknowledging deception.
Dr Izu was my Psychiatrist for a while, and I only saw him every three months. He forced me to take antipsychotics, antidepressants, and antianxieties. Dr Izu is the prototypical Alberta Psychiatrist, in that his confidence is off the charts, but that his competence, when it comes to being human, is dead last. I once told him that my diagnosis of schizophrenia indicates my IQ is one divided by zero. He turned away to his desk and muttered something in contempt like: I don’t think you have an IQ of one divided by zero. I have an impressive Philosophy Magazine mailing list that currently sits at seventy Top people, from which I have been mailing out my essays and letters since 1996. I showed my list to Dr Izu, and he said: Where did you get this?! What he meant is that he did not authorize it, and that he is Dad. In 1985 I acquired a copy of the 1958 book The Universe and Dr Einstein by Lincoln Barnett, and have read it twenty times, where it doubles the size of my Universe each time. I offered a copy of this very great book to Dr Izu for free. But he insisted on paying for it, and so I said: Ten dollars. He only had a twenty, and so he said I could pay him ten next time. I then made the concerted effort to make sure I had ten dollars in my wallet to pay him back when I saw him next. Upon meeting, I offered him the ten, and he said: Keep it. And I say: Clueless in Calgary. I wrote five letters of complaint to Dr Izu, the last one concluded with the following directive: Your Terminated Fucker!
Dr Ullyatt. According to LeaderChat.org 95 percent of people believe they are self-aware, but the real number is 10 to 15 percent. That means that, on a good day, four out of five Canadians are self-unaware liars. Socrates maintained that the man who lies to himself has an enemy living within. He is not even a person. He is just a chaos of selfish desires wrapped in an animal hide. In other words, four in five are animals. Dr Ullyatt is an animal in charge of animals. She has been my Psychiatrist for a while, and I see her every month. She is okay but, like Dr Izu, I intellectually and metaphysically tower over her, where she responds the same way all Psychiatrists respond—by forcing me to come down to her literal, deterministic, pedantic level. I am a mathematician and God is a Mathematician, and the Normal distribution is foundational to Mathematics. I asked Dr Ullyatt if she knew of the Normal distribution, and she said: Don’t you mean the Bell-Curve? I have been diagnosed with psychosis. I recognize this psychosis as a powerful part of my mind, for which I will everlastingly seek to become self-aware of. In pursuant to managing my psychosis, I employ the meditative technique of identification, and recognize errors in my daily life as psychotic events. I have found this to be a useful self-aware technique. I told Dr Ullyatt of my success in dealing with my psychosis, and she told me not call them psychotic events, but to call them mistakes. Dr Ullyatt is not interested in helping me develop my humanity. She is interested in her conditioning me, and in me capitulating to her. I do not need a Psychiatrist, I do not wish to answer to Dr Ullyatt any longer, and I do not want antipsychotics forced into me anymore, as they are deeply harmful to my magnificence. And I would thus issue the following directive to Dr Ullyatt: Your Terminated Fucker!
Closing Arguments. Perhaps, I could suggest a dozen of the Top Canadian Physicists aggregate in Banff, directed towards splaining to me why I just did not Define pi twice with my essay The Great Cosmic Accounting Blunder Two. And then, perhaps a dozen of the Top Canadian Psychiatrists could also gather in Banff, directed towards splaining to me why I have not identified Canada’s major societal problem as Behaviourism, and have indicated the path forward as Existentialism. Maybe, if these two camps are unable to come up with clarification in simple terms as to why I am not orders-of-magnitude smarter than all them—then perhaps each one of them ought to consider turning inward and reflect on the distinct possibility that they are, in fact, all a bunch of bad-faith, bald-faced liars. Or, as Herman Melville called them in his 1851 book Moby Dick: A mob of unnecessary duplicates.