People panic about "But what if kids pick up bad ideas from it???"

When I was a kid, Power Rangers got banned at school because we all thought it was incredibly cool and kept trying to kick each other in the head. No-one bothered explaining "Those are trained actors and it's all practiced, they don't *actually* hurt each other, and you're not good at that yet", they just banned it.

So we went to the park after school and read Kim's smuggled copy of the Power Rangers magazine and kicked each other in the head there instead.

(This is a metaphor, but it's also literally true. So much kicking in the head.)

God forbid parents actually talk to their teenagers.

Looking at the tags so far I’m kind of fascinated by how much the ‘I Love You’ parodies vary in their phrasing/murder weapons but the ‘Joy to the World’ ones are nearly identical

here is my collection of barney murder songs as they appeared in the notes and comments of this post at about 4 pm pacific 7/25, somewhat arbitrarily color coded to show similar memes. it appears that "baseball bat and 2x4" is the mode configuration but there is so much variation that that exact phrasing only makes up a small part of the set. if i knew more about statistical modeling i would turn this into some kind of data tree that shows which phrases are most likely to follow other phrases.

People in the notes

what “don’t encourage the delusion” means:

• don’t argue with or challenge the delusion—attempting to disprove someone’s delusions is not helpful at all and will result in that person not trusting you
• assure the delusional person that they are safe; be open and honest at all times
• encourage them to verbalize their feelings and offer protection to prevent injury to themselves or, possibly, others
• start building a trusting relationship with them rather than acting on a desire to control their symptoms
• do not confirm or feed into the delusion by asking questions about it when the person is not experiencing a psychotic episode
  

what it does not mean:

• insisting to a psychotic person experiencing psychosis that what they’re experiencing isn’t real
  

I don’t mean to trivialize psychosis by making a weird comparison, but this guide also serves as a handy checklist for helping someone through a bad drug trip. In both cases your number one priority is to get the person through whatever they’re dealing with unharmed.

i don’t think it’s trivializing at all, nor a weird comparison—as a psychotic person who has had psychotic episodes inadvertently triggered by drug use and/or worsened while trying to self-medicate with drugs, i think this is an important addition.

This is also very similar to what you should do when people with Alzheimer’s have paranoia episodes

This also works for catastrophizing spirals, which makes me consider in a whole new way how that might be considered a form of delusion.

you know who we should make operate a 4000 pound machine that goes 80 miles an hour? people who are really anxious about it

ALT

(not trying to put you on blast specifically, you're just a good example to jump off of)

media and pop culture hypes up psychosis a lot as The Worst That Can Happen out of sanism, so even when you try and filter that cultural bias out you still assume it's based on something

when, no, psychosis is actually very simple: it's just hyperactive pattern matching. it's your brain's signal-to-noise ratio being off balance, it's seeing images in random static. it's not always this special uniquely big thing, it's in fact quite mundane a lot of the time.

no one is immune to psychosis, it's not purely the realm of the insane. anyone is one bad night of sleep or one bad case of food poisoning or one bad fever away from being just like me on my worst days.

and this, indeed, is why solidarity with the insane is so important: you, yes you too, are just one bad day from joining us, and no perceptions of being a "temporarily embarrassed sane person" will save you from the oppression of the psychiatric institution.

Absolutely no shade to the OP of those tags intended, because they clearly realized this, but if hallucinations were distinguishable as what they are in some way, they wouldn’t cause so many problems.

for clarity's sake i feel the need to point out op doesn't mean "murder factories" metaphorically, the holocaust is notable for the industrialised methods of killing people. like, the nazis strategised about how to kill as cheaply and quickly as possible at scale

dude they fucking mastered the art of mass murder to the point that a whole new term needed to be coined for it.

Literally Murder Factories. Literally Industrial Slaughter. They went through multiple design iterations each on multiple possible methods on how to kill such a large number of people spread over such a large area as cheaply and quickly as possible.

Loads of genocides have, like, a specific edition of infantry weapon the soldiers were already being issued, and then they just gave it(mass murder) their best go. The Nazis determined that to be categorically, empirically too slow.

Also, separately, it’s completely fucking comical to me that some people will loudly claim that the Holocaust gets special attention due to being white on white violence… and then when you ask them about an Gorta Mór, or the Holodomor, or the Circassian genocide, or the Cathar genocide, or the Bosnian genocide, or Operation Lentil, or the genocide perpetrated against Bosniaks and Croats by the Chetniks in Yugoslavia, or the Sürgünlik, those same people just blink owlishly at you and say that they “never learned about those things in school”

Um. Hello??? If you never learned about that many white on white genocides in school then. Idk. Maybe the idea that people intrinsically care about all white on white genocides is just, uh. Not correct???

…Depending on how old the person is, they shouldn’t have even had to learn about the Bosnian genocide in school. I went to school with a kid whose family were refugees from Yugoslavia, and I’m not even 35 yet. That should have been the news.

#I voiced a criticism of some of its aspects#which in no way implies I did not like it#“and especially does not imply that I would like to hear a defense of it of the form 'shut up and let people have fun'”

REALLY endorsing these tags from galileosballs

JIC people didn’t know, this is absolutely AI.