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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:51:38 EDT
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- From: "Daniel A. Foss" <DFOSS@CCVM.SUNYSB.EDU>
- Subject: Re: AIDS and CAWKI
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- In response to Carol Wheeler I suggest that the Normal man, by rule of
- thumb, is most easily found by ascertaining which men are married. All known
- research has ascertained that marriage does great things for men, and that the
- effect does not attenuate with repetition. Men who dislike being married are,
- if not insane, then certainly fools. The effects of marriage on women is at
- this time CLASSIFIED.
-
- Sociologically, a Normal man is a man who is not Deviant. Our Deviance
- people are in Europe at this time, which is Normal, and they all agree that
- whatever a Deviant is, I'm a Deviant; also, that if you have not categorized
- a man as a Deviant within 5 or 10 seconds of initial contact, this means he
- is Normal, provisionally. Beyond this there is no agreement since the idea of
- Deviance was invented by Durkheim, who contradicted himself. The existence of
- Normals and Deviants is taught in the third lecture of Intro Sociology, the
- second lecture having been devoted to Values. Values are much in the news
- today, some say this is good for the sociology business, others disagree.
- Values were invented by Max Weber as spiritual analogues of the prices in
- mone6 of such Things as turnips or the bones of Pomeranian grenadiers used
- to make soup as quoted in the marketplace but Values being spiritual refer to
- abstractions. So unlike prices you cannot measure them. What you can measure
- are attitudes. What attitudes are is defined in five mutually contradictory
- definitions in standard use which everyone agrees to leave unreconciled, then
- forgets. So much for values and attitudes. Deviance works something like that.
-
- To Clinical Psychology Normal means you can do Normal Occupational Function-
- ing. I am right now on MACH23 and there is a Clinical Psychologist on MACH24.
- To me he looks Normal which makes him a Normal man and to Them he must be
- Normal because They do not allow wackos in the Clinical Program. He cannot tell
- that I am Disordered because he cannot tell that I am not here for the money
- so cannot determine whether I was or was not on time.
-
- Does that answer your question?
-
- DAF
-