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Outline of subjects covered: 1. Madness is itself a strategy. 2. Strategies can appear as madness. 3. Sanity, feigned or “real,” is also a strategy. 4. On the one hand, we face the threat of non-being; on the other, the threat of having to be. 5. Psychiatry is a strategic assemblage. 6. The character of resistance corresponds to the contradiction in question, and can deepen it or resolve it by other means. 7. There is much to destroy, but this entails neither a celebration of violence nor its naive denunciation. 8. Take heart: we are compromised and impure in madness Bibliography https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/sasha-warren-open-propositions-for-a-strategic-madness AND The Necessity of Madness and Unproductivity by John Breeding, Ph.D (see his videos on youtube, etc.) Reviews: 1) https://www.ablechild.org/2021/07/09/the-necessity-of-madness-and-unproductivity-psychiatric-oppression-or-human-transformation/ Summary: "This is a book that will really make you think outside the box. In The Necessity of Madness: Psychiatric Oppression or Human Transformation, author John Breeding takes a very different view of psychiatry; one that is seen by many as controversial. Society has certain expectations for human behavior, and one of those basic expectations is that we should be productive no matter what is going on with us mentally, emotionally, spiritually or physically. But Breeding believes that a certain amount of unproductivity is actually necessary for optimal spiritual growth. So the very thing most psychiatrists are trying to suppress, is what is often needed the most. Madness refers to spiritual maturity. Every one of us is born with a set of cultural values, beliefs, customs, behaviors. When we begin to explore other values and behaviors that are unfamiliar to our culture, many see this as madness. Basically, Breeding’s book helps us learn to make our own decisions on how we think our children, or any person, should act through different stages in life, as opposed to what society thinks is “normal” or “productive.” This book is an excellent resource for individuals to better understand themselves, parents to more effectively help their children, and for psychiatrists to begin expanding on their ideas about their work and possible solutions for their patients. 2) https://beyondmeds.com/2012/09/16/unproductivity-2/ Intro: The below quoted article today got me thinking about the fact that bad and soul-killing jobs are difficult on us in profound ways has many implications in terms of beginning to think about how society needs to be reordered for the well-being of all humanity. We are not meant to be slaves to capitalism and yet, that is what happens to far too many of us. Mental well-being cannot be sustained given how people are forced to harm themselves just to survive. John Breeding argues for the necessity of madness and unproductivity in his book by that name. uP tO oUr imAgiNatiOn how muCh saniTy wE gain!