#phenomenon

Classifying depression as an illness serves the psychiatric community and pharmaceutical corporations well; it also soothes the frightened, guilty, indifferent, busy, sadistic, and unschooled. To understand depression as a call for life-changes is not profitable. Stagnation is not a medical term. The 17.5 million Americans diagnosed as suffering a major depression in 1997 were mostly damned. (Psychobiological examinations confuse cause and symptom.) Deficient serotonergic functioning, ventral prefrontal cerebral cortex, dis-inhibition of impulsive-aggressive behavior, blah blah blah: the medical lexicon boils emotion from human being. Go take a drug, the doctor says. Pain is a biochemical phenomenon. Erase all memory. ↗

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#biochemical-phenomenon #cause-and-symptom #disinhibition #doctors #drugs

Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04. ↗

— Peter Bart

#continuing #example #for example #high-profile #interesting

We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#donors #first #first time #maybe #million

The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#current #current situation #disastrous #employing #ends

Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode. ↗

— Blair Underwood

#actor #african-american #because #board #city

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#animal #animal world #appears #human #human language

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#external #external world #mere #only #perspective

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#become #civilization #defining #efficiency #force

Without Greece, it is not possible to preserve the integrity of the European phenomenon. ↗

— Evangelos Venizelos

#greece #integrity #phenomenon #possible #preserve

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#ecosystems #every #fundamental #isolated #learning