My colleagues and I used to have an ongoing joke about mental illness and those that claimed to have such mental illnesses. Its a psychotherapists gallows humour.
If we decided to make up a name for a new mental illness, or in fact any illness.
lets call it "Gnomes disease", using the gnome desktop too much
Opened a new clinic called "The therapeutic gnome disease clinic". A website proclaiming how fantastic our new therapy was in curing this new illness.
It would not be long before the general public would come flocking to our door and our books would be full. All convinced they had this new made up illness.
By creating any illness human beings will find a way to convince themselves that they have that condition and go seek help.
Its an insight into how vulnerable and easily manipulated human beings really are.
This scenario also applies to the tech world and all their claims.
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My colleagues and I used to have an ongoing joke about mental illness and those that claimed to have such mental illnesses. Its a psychotherapists gallows humour.
If we decided to make up a name for a new mental illness, or in fact any illness.
lets call it "Gnomes disease", using the gnome desktop too much
Opened a new clinic called "The therapeutic gnome disease clinic". A website proclaiming how fantastic our new therapy was in curing this new illness.
It would not be long before the general public would come flocking to our door and our books would be full. All convinced they had this new made up illness.
By creating any illness human beings will find a way to convince themselves that they have that condition and go seek help.
Its an insight into how vulnerable and easily manipulated human beings really are.
This scenario also applies to the tech world and all their claims.
the power of suggestion. Thats psychology, your part of expertise. The others are experts on other fields :)