#pecking order

The modern state presents itself as a neutral arbiter of order, but in reality, its primary function is the enforcement of hierarchies that are neither natural nor necessary. These hierarchies—be they economic, racial, gendered, or social—are maintained through legal structures, policing, and coercion. The state’s legitimacy is upheld not by consent but by force, ensuring that the existing power structures remain intact.

While proponents of the state argue that it provides security and infrastructure, these benefits are secondary to its primary role: controlling populations in a way that benefits the ruling class. Historically, states have existed not to liberate people but to consolidate wealth and power among a select few. Any challenge to these hierarchies—whether through protest, alternative ways of organizing society, or radical thought—is met with repression, surveillance, and violence.

Thus, the state does not exist to serve its people. It exists to serve power.

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Psychiatry as a Tool of Gaslighting and Social Control

Modern psychiatry, particularly when institutionalized within state structures, operates less as a system of care and more as a means of enforcing compliance. Instead of addressing the root causes of distress—economic precarity, alienation, systemic oppression—psychiatric institutions pathologize natural reactions to these conditions.

Depression, anxiety, and trauma are frequently framed as individual disorders rather than as responses to living under crushing systemic conditions. Instead of challenging the systems that produce suffering, psychiatry often demands that the individual adapt, whether through medication, therapy, or involuntary hospitalization. When people resist, they are labeled as ‘irrational’ or ‘delusional,’ further isolating them from any meaningful critique of their environment.

This is a form of gaslighting on an institutional scale:

You are not meant to recognize your suffering as political.

You are not meant to see your pain as a response to an unjust world.

You are meant to believe that you are broken—not the system that crushes you.

Yan

Teito

SPM

Hiro