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Mario A Leblanc's avatar

I read the book in the late 70's then saw the movie after. I already knew that topic but I was surprised to see it in a movie. They do that while you are still alive. Think about it before to consent to be an organ donor.

COMA (1978) Trailer Starring Michael Douglas, Genevieve Bujold 2:26 min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqUxB2l6N_Q

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The System That Holds It Together – Psychopathy at the structural level

Here is the harder truth.

Such a dark system cannot sustain itself on “science” alone. It requires psychological infrastructure.

It requires naivety and sacrifices. It requires negation. It requires corruption and moral rot.

It requires professionals who believe protocol equals morality. It requires intellectual conformity dressed as rigor. It requires the absence of self-reflection at institutional scale.

This is how psychopathy at the structural level operates—not through theatrical evil, but through emotional detachment from consequence.

Intellectual rot sets in when critical inquiry is replaced by allegiance to framework. When data is permitted only if it confirms prior assumptions. When curiosity and playfulness—the very trait we extinguish in children—is unwelcome inside our institutions.

Naivety becomes virtue. Compliance becomes professionalism. Doubt becomes deviance.

And the system holds.

Until it doesn’t.

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