Chile: solidarity wins out over psychobabble

Spiked-Online.com ^ | 13 October 2010 | Brendan O’Neill

[Tupelo]

After watching the rescue for the past two days, I have come a couple of conclusions.
1: For 2 days the whole world was Chilean.

2: The stark difference between Chile's President Sebastian Pinera and our President Zero.

[mikey_hates_everything]

As one on-site doctor put it: ‘We have to say, “OK, you don’t want to speak with psychologists? Perfect. That day you get no TV, there is no music - because we administer these things.”’

Oh boy, someone would be missing teeth as soon as I got out of that mine.

[dennisw]

For the shrinks God is the competition. That’s how it is 90% of the time

[Tijeras_Slim]

Indeed, the men instituted their own systems for coping: they had a leader, they set up a prayer room, they lunched together everyday, worked in shifts to clear rubble, and had a daily ‘showing your cards’ session at which they got things off their chests.

In other words they acted like men. No wonder the shrinks hated them.

[TexasRepublic]

If I knew the wife and mistress were waiting for me, I’d be conflicted whether to come up.

Wife: “If I ever get my hands on him, I’ll kill him!”
Mistress: “He said he was single. I’m gonna kill him!”

[Notary Sojac]

When I first heard that the miners were arguing about who would go up last...and that all of them wanted the honor...I knew Chilean miners were a class act.

[Jane Austen]

Not the miner who had his mistress show up and publicly humiliated his wife publicly.

[La Enchiladita]

Chileans have a fine tradition of resistance. I hope the miners have fun with this.

[TASMANIANRED]

The more I hear about the elitist class of psychologists the more I think they need to be added to the list right behind lawyers.

As in...”The first thing we do is kill all the lawyers” Quot Shakespeare

[TASMANIANRED]

All was not sweetness and light in the mine.