Mental Health and Politics (Part 1)

Since the age of enlightenment there's been a high value of reason and rationality, though it has been a productive time for critique against monarchies and the church with the proliferation of science and a radical orientation on the ordering in society, it failed on the analysis of power , how such power structures are created in a social environment at large and especially the trivialization of our emotional being which is out of fear of irrationality that our emotions and feelings exudes or one might say what we deem irrational, Which one might argue it is the repressed entity in our unconscious which is shown in how spirituality, mythology and in some cases religion helped us map our inner world with a shared truth to confront that same irrationality. This is still emblematic in our current day and age despite our awareness of mental health as we unintentionally follow the ideal of the "rational white man" moved by the notion of being civilized, or in a better a form of Imposition that requires implicit action or inaction in this case. Without space to question our presuppositions, space for liminality, the in-between, to recognize the inferiority complaints an individual has which is also added to the group subjectivity the individual finds themselves experiencing, but instead it is masked to provide the fantasy of a functioning social environment where institutional and social violence is ignored. A good example of this is how patriachal ideas reproduces itself are in forms of epistemes built on certain dogmatic ontologies creating systems that compartmentalizes its functions, the way it orders society, nature and the individual all split into parts of parts rearranged into a whole that benefits from chaos with small bubbles of safety and security, which requires the domination, exploitation and alienation of individuals especially women as they already are seen as emotional and sensitive humans with all their irrational desires they've been systematically controlled materially, emotionally and through justificatory orders (what is considered normal valued in our society) which usually doesn't serve us but only to the ruling class, the powerful, the rich which for them creates their own bubble of safety and security from the excesses of the function of society in a superficial, psychological and material sense, which becomes a conduit of resentment that builds up over time . To the point they're voices are silent, fallen on deaf ears, their emotions ignored unless it's to serve others which leads to sayings like her body my choice, women can't vote for they're children. So we ask ourselves how doesn't this affect everyone else?

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