Greetings Economists,
On Jun 18, 2008, at 2:24 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
By "unhealthy," I simply
was referring to unrealistic wishful thinking. Do you think that is a
healthy thing?
Doyle;
I am referring to a common response in disability rights about
'health', in which medicalizing issues stands in for some more
realistic analysis of social relationships. Unrealism is not health
based. Error is not health based. Except in the most narrow sense of
individual minds. It does not take much to understand that health and
error are not connected. But for example, a society that is religious
and rejects evolution is not mentally unhealthy. No matter how much
one might feel evangelicals who fight evolution in schools are 'nuts'
that is not what makes them wrong. They represent organizational
consensus that is 'wrong' as organized opinion.
The problem with health is that it is an unknowable normality. We can
more easily find economic truth than health truth.
thanks,
Doyle Saylor
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