Who Are The Mentally Ill

The venerable magazine The Atlantic featured on the cover of it's May 2023 issue this headline:

The Atlantic’s May Cover Story: “American Madness”

Jonathan Rosen writes about his childhood best friend’s schizophrenic break, and America’s ongoing failure to help the mentally ill.

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Who the fuck are "the mentally ill?" Do they live next door to "the Jews" and "the blacks?"

When an erudite publication refers to the psychiatric community, while featuring yet another sensational schizophrenic-on-the-loose-off-his-meds murder rampage story, as "the mentally ill," it is not suggestive of people with a problem, but rather people that are the problem.

The Atlantic then juxtaposes, in large, set-off print, this quote:

"The biggest improvement in people's mental health can happen when they are involuntarily hospitalized, a psychiatrist who works with the homeless told me." 

So, if you're in the waiting room at the dentist, and news of another mass shooting is dominating the broadcast from the television, with blowhards demanding mental health reform, and you mindlessly thumb through the copy of The Atlantic, and you all you digest is mass-shooting-mentally-ill-involuntary-hospitalization, voila, the media has just shaped an opinion.

And it's called learned ignorance.