Flat Liners

The “experts” find all sorts of ways to make you stay up nights. One way is to show how crazy we all are. Being normal has become a state that has no peaks or valleys. No ups, no downs. Just a nice, boring state where no one does, says or feels a whole lot.

For instance, it’s considered a mental problem to be depressed. But it’s also a sign of mental problems to be too happy. They call it “manic” (makes it sound clinical, doesn’t it?) They’ll call you in to see the school counselor if your child's not too bright. They’ll also call you in if he’s too bright. The theory goes, “We could be looking at mental problems down the road due to your child standing out in the crowd. The other kids will torment him for being too stupid/smart, so we must get him some counseling.” Anything they consider "too much" has to be leveled out. Make everyone nice and dull and similar. No flunkies. No geniuses. (They even tell us that genius is close to insanity, but that’s a whole ‘nother blog.)

It’s also interesting that the “therapy” of choice these days – drugs – has the same effect as their philosophy. When you take a psychiatric drug to keep you from getting depressed, the drug doesn’t know the difference between a good emotion and a bad one. It just dulls them all down. Once again doing away with the peaks and the valleys.

Life is peaks and valleys. That’s what makes things interesting. Life is a game and the only reason one is interested in playing a game is if there is something to win and lose. One of the reasons our schools are doing so poorly is that the "experts" have infested the education system with the idea that competition is harmful. Lets do away with grades. Let no child fail! It hurts the student’s self-esteem. Bull! Self-esteem comes from competency.

Current mental health theories and psychiatric drugs take away the ups and downs. And if you’re on a life support system and the machine you’re hooked up to stops showing peaks and valleys – you’ve flat lined. You’re dead.