Yes hopefully good will come from this compassionate perspective from the APA!

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> Good thoughts, Chance.
> Reflexivity is a beginning, I suppose.
> Let us watch for resulting action/s.
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> Waldemar
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> Waldemar A Schmidt, PhD, MD
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>>> On Nov 2, 2021, at 4:20 PM, Chance McDermott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Psychology is an awkward position.  It is self aware enough to recognize its role as a cultural tool to maintain existing power hierarchies, but not powerful enough to coherently change the Western world's reinforcement structures.  
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>> It is now trying to walk back individualism, capitalism, meritocracy, and objective measurement while simultaneously reinforcing all of the aforementioned in the lived experience of the society.  
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>> In a hypercompetitive society that defines itself by free will, moral choice, personal accountability, and winners and losers, it makes no sense for psychology to retreat from the colonial assimilation model that favors its Western lineage.  Whether a hypercompetitive society based on the aforementioned makes any sense at this point is perhaps a better question, but one that we will all struggle to address due to conflicts of interest.
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>> From a Unified Approach perspective, psychology now has significantly changed its verbal justifications whilst maintaining its habit system and most of its operantly conditioned affect system.  
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>> I'm a broken record, but I don't take any statement about "removing human hierarchy" seriously without advocacy for a non-contingent Universal Basic Income enough to cover living and healthcare costs.  In the meantime, the APA can sustain itself through gatekeeping services through clinical assessment work.
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>> -Chance
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