1. An extremely violent drive-by or otherwise similar shooting with criminal intention.
2. An unforgivable social faux pas.
1. "Dispatch, we have 9 unidentified bodies and an unknown amount of wounded, Textbook Suge Knight Bloc Party, send back-up and paramedics, over."
2. "What you did when we were drinking was nothing short of a Suge Knight Bloc Party. You've committed social suicide, and I'll be surprised if we ever get into a strip club again."
The tendency to frame all human variation, experience, or behavior in terms of pathology—as symptom, disorder, or dysfunction. Under Pathologization of Everything, grief becomes depression, eccentricity becomes autism spectrum, spiritual experience becomes psychosis, political dissent becomes paranoia, normal variation becomes disorder. The pathologizing lens medicalizes human experience, turning life into a series of diagnosable conditions. The result is not better understanding but wider surveillance—everyone becomes a potential patient, everything becomes a potential symptom.
"She's sad after a breakup. 'Must be depression.' He's focused on his work. 'Could be OCD.' They're passionate about politics. 'Probably paranoid.' That's Pathologization of Everything—seeing pathology everywhere, health nowhere. Human experience becomes a checklist of disorders; normal variation becomes dysfunction. The pathologizing gaze doesn't heal—it pathologizes."