The Genius of Insanity
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| Blog Name: | The Genius of Insanity |
| Url: | http://www.geniusofinsanity.com |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | genius, insanity |
| Description: | What is crazy? What and who defines a mind that is crazy? Are you crazy if a psychiatrist deems you as such? Are you crazy if your actions are not inline with societal constructs? Are all non-conformists crazy? Are you crazy if you believe in the deepest layers of Quantam Physics and thus that this world we live in is not unique but merely a mirror of a mirror of a mirror, ad infinitum? Over the last several hundred years the geniuses of the mathematical and scientific worlds have been maligned in their efforts of trying to discover and prove theories of alternate realities. Most notably, Galileo, who in the early 1600's was ostracized by the Catholic Church for purporting his beliefs of heliocentrism. Great thinkers did not/ do not conform to doctorines of standardized thinking --- they declared ideas and hypothesis that flew in the face of what their respective societies believed in. They were, by all standards of normative thought process, crazy. Why does there seem to be such a fine line, or perhaps no line at all, between genius and maddness? Why are some of the greatest painters, scientists, mathematicians, writers, composers...of questionable mental stability? I suppose the answer might lie in who deems one mentally fit. Within the last few years there has been a huge push in increasing awareness about "mental illness," which is the politically correct term created by our progressive society (tongue-in-cheek). More and more people are being diagnosed with mental illness, most notably of the bi-polar type. Today on the way home from work I heard on the radio that 1-in-4 people are mentally ill. HUH! Are you kidding me. I am not in any way saying that 25% of the world does not show signs of a diagnosable mental illness, but this is the rub for me. First, all human beings are constantly evolving ---every day many of us go through life changing events which means every day our psyches are forced to contend with these situations. We learn to adapt to negative and positive life events. How we contend with these issues often times tends to become the means with which we, and those around us, define our inner attributes and deficits. The point is this, if human being X rebounds quickly from a negative event in comparison to human being Y this should not be the gauge with which to measure the human psyche. If both human beings end up getting to the same goal but on different time lines, this does not make the slower of the two "mentally ill," it just means she walks her path at a slower pace. I am rambling a bit as I am really tired and need to stop writing soon or this little narrative will unravel into complete jibber jabber. Just to tie off this initial narrative about contemporary society's need to diagnosis all quirky human beings with "mental illness." Thank God that the DSM-IV was not around in the days of Galileo, Mozart, and Van Goh, to name but a few, for if it had we might have lost the first astronomer, arguably one of the greatest composers, and one of the great impressionists in the history of art. We might have traded in their greatness to a group of guys dosed up on anti psychotics. The world might have lost the discovery of heliocentrism, The Mass in C Minor, and the immensly important,The Starry Night, to a group of groggy geniuses talking about their "goals" of the day, which would ignore their brilliance and would, rather, be supplanted with talk of medication monitoring, therapy groups, and maybe even some journaling (but not too much as we wouldn't want to upset our delicate geniuses and risk having them relapse back into greatness). |
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