[Then] gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.
So at the present time I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos." ― John Nash, Nobel Prize Biography
Crossing the line
How many of us have begun a work or relationship with what we thought were honest and transparent hopes ... then [in the name of innocent pragmatism] repeatedly amended the "rules" to make the unfavorable results meet our otherwise disappointed expectations ... until we found ourselves, suddenly, unable to distinguish reality from delusion? This is the textbook definition of a psychotic. Examples of individual psychotics are endless.
“I always told myself that I would be able to pay these notes back someday with the massive growth of the empire I was trying to build,” she wrote. Gina Champion-Cain, 57
But mass psychosis [as in politics] is another subject altogether ... or is it really that different?
Please read the following essays to consider this timely thought as America embraces increasingly unconventional solutions to its entrenched and growing sociological and ecological problems.
PS. Others are seeing the same evidences of rising mass psychosis:
"The methods and means applied in service to a pseudo-reality will create and manipulate psychological weaknesses in people to get them to carry water for a destructive lie. The nicer, more tolerant, and more charitable a community is, supposing it lacks the capacity to spot these counterfeits early on, the more susceptible its members will tend to be to these manipulations." https://newdiscourses.com/2020/12/psychopathy-origins-totalitarianism
