Sanity v. Insanity

[kingfisher111]

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation; in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society — and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic. In the context of this study the crucial question is whether the hypothesis of a quasi-autistic or of low-grade schizophrenic disturbance would help us to explain some of the violence spreading today.
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- Erich Fromm

[zap]

I wish I could use this excuse, but i'm loonier than a saturday morning cartoon show.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

I wish I could use this excuse, but i'm loonier than a saturday morning cartoon show.

Zap

really appreciate your presence. i know that I cannot fill the void you feel but i really appreciate you and your unique sense of humor.

appreciate the quotes from Fromm Art. i read his book about love years ago but it is one of those books you can hear more and more from.

[kingfisher111]

Yes.  I will likely read it again in the near future.  It's definitely one worth returning to now and again for reminders and new insights related to more recent life experience.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Yes.  I will likely read it again in the near future.  It's definitely one worth returning to now and again for reminders and new insights related to more recent life experience.

yes.. 'the fully sane person feels isolated in an insane society.' I get it and have felt such feelings. Yet today seeing a group of people like this having a place to share similar feelings and ideas shows how we are evolving in our humanity. The 'incapacity to communicate' is somewhat relieved by finding people of a similar thought and spiritual wavelength.