© copyright 2008
by Lin Stone

Please choose only three or four answers.  Is this thing going to
  • hug you,
  • bite you,
  • stab you,
  • suck you dry
  • or hiss at you
    from a dark corner?

Ink blots are prejudiced.

Ink spots are used by psychiatrists because they are prejudiced.

Psychiatry is the art of making you dream up dark, sick thoughts, then making you feel guilty about the dark, sick thoughts you dreamed up so they can prescribe a power pill to pop that coincidentally costs a fortune, and invite you back next week for the next session, -- if you can live with yourself long enough to make the appointment.

Think about the ink blots they use for a second.  Look at a dozen of them and how would you describe them?

  1. They are black
  2. Dark
  3. Evil
  4. Shadowy
  5. Fuzzy
  6. Strange

***

You're right.  Now,
Let me ask you this,

Do any of these descriptions make you
raise your voice in gladsome song?


***

When ad writers want you to want their brand of whiskey do they show you wretched drunks staggering around in dark, dangerous alleys?  Do they show a man in a 73 hour beard desperately shaking the bottle to get the last drop while a naked child tugs at his arm, whining for bread?

NO!

...

They are smart enough to show you a wonderful party with the lights shining down on gleaming smiles, with these sweet, sexy people dancing to erotic music that is playing softly from somewhere in the wealthy, cultured background.

...

They aren't playing fair, are they?

No, they are pulling out all the stops
So you are glad to be paying
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on THEIR brand of whiskey.

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.

Psychiatrists have studied enough psychology to know a little bit of color can make bad things look good, but psychiatrists don't want you to feel good,  they want you to feel threatened,

That's where they make their money, and convince you to set up recurring appointments --

They all too well that when they can make you worry about what's hiding under your bed,
in your closet,
behind the shower curtains,

and where you are stepping

Most people go see a psychiatrist with just a little problem, and before a month has gone by they have improved so much they can’t even take a shower by themselves unless they have popped a puny $64.00 pill the psychiatrist insists is going to help them, someday soon.

They work hard to have patients
Eager to pay any price they ask,
just to get rid of the bad images
that a visit to their drab, faceless office provokes.

***

Psychiatrists use BLACK ink blots
Because
Black Ink Blots Are Prejudiced. 

**

If they wanted to play fair,

they would at least use a few bright colors
and say,
"What joyful scene do these blots remind you of?

"Why, Doc,
"suddenly they look like cute little rabbits
"having the time of their lives! 

"I feel great,
"wonderful,
"HOW did you ever do it --"

"Wait, wait, I gave you the wrong blot.  "

Yeah Doc. 
This one is not prejudiced like your ink blots are,
is it?

the end

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