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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
I have a fantasy. There is an entry in the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel", the bible of psychiatrists, under "A Variety of Obsessive and Compulsive Disorder Not Otherwise Specified", defining this as an obsession with classifying every human with a label, a compulsion to find a mental illness in every human and to give them large quantities of toxic chemicals and worse. Further traits of those suffering from this very serious illness, which is a grave danger to society, are marked delusions of grandeur, paranoia, but unlike schizophrenia, they do not hear voices. This is because they do not in fact listen. The favoured remedy is user empowerment.