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Mental Healthism: Scottish Family Party Conference 13/11/2021. Text used for my presentation to conference (Some differences exist from filmed speech).

Mental health’ is a phrase everybody uses without thinking. Yet when we subject it to critical analysis, we can see just how slippery a term it really is. It is a term that reduces and reifies human experience to simple categories of good and ill health. Today, political activists from all political persuasions often campaign…

by Dr Bruce Scott

Beyond a State of Fear: Menticide and Schizogenesis

Around the 11th to 13th to the June, the world was exposed to the ugliest display of “one rule for us, another for the masses” when the G7 leaders met in Carbis Bay in Cornwall. You had the blatant “disregard” for the “climate crisis” with all of the leaders jetting in (including Boris Johnson from…

by Dr Bruce Scott

The killing of God: Identity politics, political correctness and so-called liberation.

Text of conference presentation (05/08/21) given at Natural and Artistic Beauty in Process Metaphysics: 6th European Summer School in Process Thought, Warsaw, Poland (August 2nd-6th 2021) http://filozofia.wns.uni.opole.pl/6th-european-summer-school-in-process-thought/?fbclid=IwAR1BzavU9JlJ3eYYtoFnekKrVCakmzZliVGXQOnk4VpgGUaatdmwZ-lNAEg Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote In the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus he writes: “6.522: There are things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.”…

by Dr Bruce Scott

Escape from Menticide: Possible futures/Parallel social structures.

Speech delivered outside the Scottish Parliament 17th July 2021, Holyrood, Edinburgh. Text of speech. I am on the bill to speak about health. This is a difficult challenge as we are living through one of the unhealthiest times (psychologically speaking) through no fault of out own, but by the deliberate hand of government. I have…

by Dr Bruce Scott

May Day Gathering, Holyrood, Edinburgh, 2021 (Text of speech)

Six months ago, I stood here talking about the disgusting and unethical use of applied psychology by psychologists of the UK government. The government psychologists have shown no remorse about their applied psychological abuse.  This psychological abuse has been normalised. We are being conditioned to think it is normal to accept such psychological abuse, just…

by Dr Bruce Scott

Querying the Queering of Scottish Schools.

It was announced with great fanfare on the 12th of August by the Scottish government and welcomed by the Scottish Education Secretary, Shirley Anne Sommerville, new guidance regarding transgender issues in schools. Sommerville stated on the Scottish government website:  “New guidance to help schools better support transgender children and young people has been published. The…

by Dr Bruce Scott

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