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American Horror Story and the Social Construction of deviance: How Social theory and Television can help us understand ourselves as a society.

American Horror Story seasons 1 and 2 utilize the Protestant and Catholic (respectively) churches’ influence and authority to deconstruct and subvert the “American Title” television trope. The entire notion of the American Title is summarized into 2 main facets:

1. Truth, justice, and wholesome family values.

2. Wild, free-spirited nature unbound by old world traditions.

American Horror Story subverts these themes by demonstrating how the denial of truth, perversion of justice, and imposition of traditional Christian values (Protestant and Catholic) destroy lives. It also demonstrates how truly reigned in and bound modern society is by traditional (Old World) religious standards.

In season 1, the Protestant way of life and demand for the perfect image of family destroys the Langdon’s lives and isolates society from itself and everyone in it. We all feel like some kind of failure for not living up to external expectations. Only when we break free from those expectations will we be true to ourselves. In season 2, the Catholic church imposes what modern civility and behavior look like while torturing people under the guise of Modern Psychiatry. It also examines the medical gaze as it was philosophically and practically in the dark ages of Psychiatry and psychology. In both seasons, issues of religion as social control, modern society’s definition of mental illness, and the idea of lost hope, potential, and identity are all explored and analyzed.

#sociology #psychology #psychiatry #media #Ahs #American Horror Story #TV #television #theory

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Gotham: Camp meets traditional masculinity.

The male and female heros are brave, strong and on the "right" side of the law. This unfounded (in the real world) "good guy with a gun" trope is a way for straight men to admire other men in a safe manner. Masculine in a violent way rather than a sexual way so it is socially acceptable to indulge. Both violent and sexual masculinity are the extreme ideal types used to fulfill a fantasy of raw masculinity. One wants to be heroic and save the day and be rewarded for it with a woman and American lifestyle. The other wants to be in the presence of raw animalistic masculinity and exchange energy and DNA.

#psychology #sociology #anthropology #Gotham #Batman #Theory #Camp #Gay #sexuality

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You're not an NPC, you're worse, shitty AI. NPCs follow a script. Shitty AI makes bad decisions constantly despite having the same information every one else.

#Npc #AI #sociology #Society

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3/31/22

#me #self

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YouTube search histories are the most intimate and fragile parts of anyone's identity.

#youtube #Sociology #Theory #Anthropology #Psychology

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Neuroplasticity is like dollhouse. Our actions in the moment are the best predictions for the future, not our past actions or our future intentions. Who we are and everything we do (in present tense) best describes who we are at any given moment. While shouting at someone, the context of the situation shows us who we are when we shout. It demonstrates our triggers and thresholds for non physical pain. And when we say that it is not reflective of who we are when we lose our tempers it also shows, in real time, that we are in denial and further demonstrates how inline we are with our past behavior.

#neuroplasticity #neurology #Personality #Psychology #Dollhouse #identity

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(My) History of Modern Psychiatry

Dark ages: 50-80s, peak modern society and what is considered to be normal and abnormal, healthy and sick. Singular, bureaucratic, and powerful decision makers decide what is healthy and what is sick. They have too much bureaucratic and therefore illegitimate power. Modern society is at near end and the PostModern Era's growth from infancy, to childhood, to adolescence and young adulthood (Millennials are the postmodern generation). As modernity grows closer and closer to death and eventually dies, it's decay and rotting corpse are still around. The gift of modernity was the scientific method. Let the fields take no more from modernity.

Prozac generation: 90-10s, the end of modernity and the full Emergence of the PostModern Era. Multiple things were true and wrongs had been rectified (kinda). Drugs the treatment of choice as metal illness is treated as such. This is a good and bad thing. Therapy was truly still in its infancy, childhood at the most. Perhaps now it's in its adolescence, or (from beginner and novice) amateur phase. Drugs help the real physical and psychological symptoms, but do not address the underlying issues that are caused by personal, institutional, and cultural issues.

Trauma informed practice: 20s- mental illness is caused by the constraint of a single modern narrative when humans' natural talents are being wasted on making others rich. We're in the futuristic dystopia. We're basically living in the Mario movie. Trauma includes individual trauma from modern institutions and the effects of colonization, modernity, and post modernity on entire populations of peoples. The problematic traditions in cultures that many are unaware of and unwilling to admit to being problematic. These are the oppressive acts used to keep people in line with modern society (a single approved narrative for what a good person and life is supposed to be) within any given culture.

#Psychiatry #Modernity #Psychology #Medicine #mentalheathawareness

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The Social and Behavioral Science of Batman:

A truly upper class perspective on mental health and modern society.

White, economic, and male privilege in modern society. How men can fight their demons with super powers.

Jokers unknown origins are completely known. He is the manifestation of wild humanity and psychosis.

Riddler is narcissism and gifted child syndrome

Poison ivy is raw idealism and suburban communism

Bane is poverty and addiction and the ability to break batman

Scarecrow is anxiety cluster of disorders

Killer croc is image based disorders

Mr freeze is depression and rumination

Mad hatter is about self esteem and denial of reality

#Gotham #batman #Psychology #Psychiatry #Sociology #Theory #mentalheathawareness

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Kids programing in the 90s was actually really good. It truly taught Millennials how to be decent people and socially responsible citizens. That's why we call out the bullshit of boomers. The TV shows they had raise us taught us to be critical of the people who raised us.

#media #generations #millennials #ok boomer #boomers #Media #Childhood #Tv #Sociology

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There really is a stigma against depression. I experienced it my entire life. I just never knew it. You're so dark and depressed. It wasn't an aesthetic, it still isn't. It's my expression of emotion and thoughts I was scolded for and socially controlled because of. Why are you so depressed? Emo. So evil. Of course you like the dead trees. And the dead of night and winter. Of course I do. Winter is historically about survival. I've survived most of my life. I'm finally learning how to live it.

#me #self #Depression #Stigma #mentalheathawareness #Psychiatry #Sociology #Psychology #Anthropology #Theory

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I like consistency with precedent changes when needed. Permanence and tradition induce anxiety.

#Anxiety #Ocd #bpd #bipolor #me #self #psychiatry

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Getting on the computer was an experience. Computing now is mundane and addictive.

#anthropology #Sociology #Psychology #millennials #Internet #computer

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If you came of age in the 2000s, ie you're a Millennial, you cannot underestimate just how influential, whether you liked it or not, Fergalicious was to our generation.

I, like many others (I hope/assume) I took it at face value as she was just Fergalicious as an adjective, not as a reference to oral sex.

#Sociology #anthropology #millennials #Millennial #2000s #1990s #fergalicious #fergie #Oral #Sex

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As a child I was always confused when adults would say that young children don't understand death. What's not to understand? The person stops living.

#Childhood #Death #Dying #Sociology #Psychology #Me #Self

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Oldest kids get the most parental mistakes with more than sufficient care, middle kids get fewer parental mistakes but significantly less care, youngest kids get the fewest mistakes and the most care.

The diaper brand luvs even uses this idea as a marketing tool.

#anthropology #sociology #families #family #Marriage #psychology #Children #Kids

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Straight white male comedians have a victim complex because they likely suffered adversity and trauma that anyone can experience but attribute it to their race and gender rather than the psychological and socio-economic trauma they experienced.

#psychology #Sociology #Trauma #Comedy #Media #Race #Comedian

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Gotham

The TV show Gotham is the intersection of privilege, modern psychiatry, and camp. A multi-part analysis coming soon.

#Gotham #theory #media #tv #batman #psychiatry #privilege