I’d like to add an anecdote to my comment today on the previous post, “Bogus Science.”
My finances took a hit, as I mentioned the month before last, due to the scam involving my sister, who owed me money and was paying me back monthly: something she can no longer do after her account was emptied by the scammer. I’ve just come from my bank to clarify something. Since I had to wait in line to speak with an executive, I brought one of my journals to keep me entertained while I waited my turn.
So I happened to see that on January 18, 2018, I had written something about Tyrone Pattern-Walsh, who used to sign his emails “Ty”: a commenter I visited in London who was imprisoned by the government last year for what he said on his friend Chris Gibbons’ podcast, whom I also met in London. (The poor Englishmen lack a First Amendment, and any truly incisive comment against the System can have very serious legal consequences!)
As I also recently mentioned in another of our recent discussion threads, I was struck by the fact that when I recommended to Ty in his London flat that he watch one of Robert Whitaker’s videos (I embedded a Whitaker video in my previous post yesterday) to help him stop taking the drug that was causing him akathisia, he basically ignored me.
Well, although my intention in queuing at the bank had nothing to do with Ty—I opened my 2018 diary simply to pass the time entertained while waiting—, I stumbled upon a passage that illustrates why it’s really foolish not to be interested in the topic:
By the way, Ty admires Charles Manson but not the critics of psychiatry I quote [in The West’s Darkest Hour]—even though he’s a victim of psychiatry! [my Spanish-English translation]
I wasn’t just referring to the akathisia from the drug he was taking when I noticed those symptoms in his apartment (always moving nervously, almost reflexively), but also because in the previous decade, his parents had committed him to a psychiatric hospital where he suffered terribly.
Would Ty be in jail if, instead of admiring the madman Manson, he had admired Whitaker?
I don’t think so: without akathisia and with his cathartic testimony of what his parents had done to him in auto-biographical books, as Benjamin and I did, he wouldn’t have been so reckless in his revolutionary pronouncements on Black Wolf Radio, run by Chris. (You simply cannot talk about racial revolution, even in a purely academic way, on that Orwellian island!)
