Make it unthinkable, please

A story

Once upon a time, in a certain place, there was an ordinary man who did not stay ordinary. His story is riveting.

Why some diseases are wronged

In this post we take misopathy apart. (If you don't know what misopathy is, that's explained too.)

We will try to find out why some diseases are wronged.

Misopathy comes in many forms, but I want to tell you about three levels:

1. personal
2. institutional
3. organized

This table is a sort of summary in advance:

level	type of misopathy	rough description	a concrete example
1	personal	prejudice, bigotry	bullying
2	institutional	institutional behavior, groupthink	seeming SNAFUs
3	organized	coordinated, systematic, planful	corruption of science

My point will be that the levels are closely linked.

Let's start with level 1.

Persecution, bad reasoning, and clusters (Le Roy 2)

Here is part 2 of "Le Roy and the next age of mankind". Click here for part 1, which is about history and oblivion. Click here for part 3, which is about the next age of mankind.

If this part is not understandable enough, you can skip to part 3. Each part is written in a different style.

History and oblivion (Le Roy and the next age of mankind)

This is a 100% self-contained article, and it also serves as part 1 of a 3-part series. Part 2. Part 3.

Let's get situated in Le Roy

For example, doctors may perceive from the circumstances, such as the patient's age, healthy complexion, and the reaction of his eyes, that his disease does not result from any defect of the blood or the stomach, or any other infirmity; and they therefore judge that it is not due to any natural defect, but to some extrinsic cause. And since that extrinsic cause cannot be any poisonous infection, which would be accompanied by ill humors in the blood and stomach, they have sufficient reason to judge that it is due to witchcraft.

This was written in 1486 in Europe.¹

As far as I am concerned, the only things that would seem really out of place in official discussion of Le Roy, New York, USA are "humors" and the last word, and those are merely details that got updated in the half-millennium since.²