The following was originally written August, 2008 and revised for Disconnection Notice...
The potential for insanity may be the first sign that we are truly intelligent beings, but it’s also the first sign that we have a lot to learn. As our society moves more toward approval of right brained activity now that we need not be focused only on survival, and as diving within the self through study and through drug movements flowers out, we will find some of the answers to our troubles. Troubles we weren't even aware we had. There is a reason most instabilities reside in the right brain. We are the ones who don’t get caught up in the details and see the world for what it is, we are the ones who know enough to go mad. How can most people not see that society as a whole is going mad? How our own creation is bringing itself down? Us nut jobs are merely a reflection of the whole, the ones who take the world personally.
The reflection is best seen in the arts. We understand society and we think nothing of it, and this opinion is becoming more and more validated.
It seems like the only thing stopping this from being realized is our own collective ego, society's defense mechanisms. Insanity exists to expose the cracks in the system.
I just can't get over the idea that the answers do not all reside in our logic, that we are emotional beings for a reason. That art, theology... angst, everything abstract, is merely a response to, well, reality. This sense that something isn't right here. That if an ideal mind is merely a perception machine, something that isn't caught up in any delusion, then it has two hemispheres for a reason and we need to acknowledge everything that comes with it, and the bulk of society is still really struggling with the idea that everything might just not be very logical. They don't want to acknowledge that logic is our own invention and that there's something much bigger outside of it, some sort of logic that we can't comprehend so it comes out as emotional and abstract.
The potential for insanity may be the first sign that we are truly intelligent beings, but it’s also the first sign that we have a lot to learn. As our society moves more toward approval of right brained activity now that we need not be focused only on survival, and as diving within the self through study and through drug movements flowers out, we will find some of the answers to our troubles. Troubles we weren't even aware we had. There is a reason most instabilities reside in the right brain. We are the ones who don’t get caught up in the details and see the world for what it is, we are the ones who know enough to go mad. How can most people not see that society as a whole is going mad? How our own creation is bringing itself down? Us nut jobs are merely a reflection of the whole, the ones who take the world personally.
The reflection is best seen in the arts. We understand society and we think nothing of it, and this opinion is becoming more and more validated.
It seems like the only thing stopping this from being realized is our own collective ego, society's defense mechanisms. Insanity exists to expose the cracks in the system.
I just can't get over the idea that the answers do not all reside in our logic, that we are emotional beings for a reason. That art, theology... angst, everything abstract, is merely a response to, well, reality. This sense that something isn't right here. That if an ideal mind is merely a perception machine, something that isn't caught up in any delusion, then it has two hemispheres for a reason and we need to acknowledge everything that comes with it, and the bulk of society is still really struggling with the idea that everything might just not be very logical. They don't want to acknowledge that logic is our own invention and that there's something much bigger outside of it, some sort of logic that we can't comprehend so it comes out as emotional and abstract.