Totally, I am one who rely on rationality as you probably noticed.
There's some things that happens and I doubt, I keep rationalizing away, until it explodes in full blown agonizing madness.
Dude, you can't repress meaning. Meaning is born out of nothingness. This little ego-death necessary to participate in, a process that for cultures of the past or the cultures/religions still alive now happens so naturally, like buying candy.
Now it seems that by buying so many candies, meaning has been lost, eh?
Those conditions like autism or asperger with so much fuss over is simply about that. The most (technically) advanced state of civilization can't civilize its own subjects, or perhaps manufacturing socio-developmentally disabled fodder from broken families is its job at this point. Thence “neurodiversity”.
In psychiatry there is the existential approach that deals with that in more detail. I'm not a fan of those men in coats meddling with people's souls, but the existentialists stand out, they are quite forgotten nowadays, all attention is given to the “brain” with its chemical hormonal components.
I agree with the point that the cultural products of our society are focussed not on cultivating mystery or seeking insight from what kind of feelings the "known unknowns" provoke, but rather explaining away all the facts in a self-generating heap of 'lore'. Anyone who listens to the dweebs arguing over fine points of Dune lore while completely ignoring the central metaphysical theme of predestination and free will can see that this is all about selling factoids as sweeties for the fanboys. Lore sells - and can be fed into some Hollywood AI to generate more so-called stories.
I disagree that somehow we are manufacturing neurodiversity, though there may be a point there in how the autism-spectrum disorders are overmedicalized - drugs like candies. I really can't give an opinion on how much the medication of the issue aids or contributes to its prevalance. From my own family experience I would say that a lot of disability is a side-product of our environmental contamination, though of course such conditions have always existed. It's simply unknowable how many great thinkers, seers or artists from the past were 'somewhere on the spectrum'.
The main problem with the existentialists is that they are almost always prophets of European Man Existence - other forms of understanding the world are simply excluded. The much vaunted Camus for example agonized about his White Frenchman problem in Algiers but without ever considering the existence of the colonized Algierian. it would take Fanon to give us that understanding.
I'm so much an outsider in relation to the current cultural trends, but I get the point.
About the disorders and its causations, it's such a rabbit hole, it's truly multifaceted. I tend to prioritize the cultural question I outlined, it is what weighs more.
The existentialism I talk about is a 'branch' of psychiatry, R. D Laing is one of the most famous.
It's interesting because there's finally some praxis of the philosophy.
Oh, Fanon himself was a psychiatrist too, but I haven't explored his work yet.
R.D. Laing is something I read when I was much younger, it tended to confuse me back then, but I ought to have another look now I've experienced and understood some of his 'Knots'.
It was recommended by the most traditionalist type schoolmaster you could imagine, a kind of Churchill clone, so that was odd. It can be surprising what people choose to adventure their brains in sometimes.
I haven't read his Knots, it's wild, not a good starter I guess. It's recommended to go to the book where he lays the basis of his existential psychiatry 'The Divided Self An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness'.
In this book he shows his experiences with his patients and applies existentalism, which is great because it opens a understanding of the inner world of the schizophrenic instead of treating him/her like a retard. Laing too, understood that many of the insane were actually resisting against an insane world, but without 'good defenses' thus turning to madness.
It was revolutionary at the time, the 50s.
Laing of course wasn't an angel, it was a good endeavor at the beggining but soon it was institutionalized, it was the famous "Anti-Psychiatry" movement. Which Tom Szasz, an even more radical psychiatrist, criticized.
They understood the insane better, but they still kept them in cages so to speak.
There's many others like Karl Jaspers, Henri Ey, Ludwig Binswanger, Eugène Minkowski, Medard Boss, Joseph Gabel, Louis Sass.
That's too much, a specialization at this point 🤭. I've explored some and they were all very insightful.
“Mysteries just are”
Totally, I am one who rely on rationality as you probably noticed.
There's some things that happens and I doubt, I keep rationalizing away, until it explodes in full blown agonizing madness.
Dude, you can't repress meaning. Meaning is born out of nothingness. This little ego-death necessary to participate in, a process that for cultures of the past or the cultures/religions still alive now happens so naturally, like buying candy.
Now it seems that by buying so many candies, meaning has been lost, eh?
Those conditions like autism or asperger with so much fuss over is simply about that. The most (technically) advanced state of civilization can't civilize its own subjects, or perhaps manufacturing socio-developmentally disabled fodder from broken families is its job at this point. Thence “neurodiversity”.
In psychiatry there is the existential approach that deals with that in more detail. I'm not a fan of those men in coats meddling with people's souls, but the existentialists stand out, they are quite forgotten nowadays, all attention is given to the “brain” with its chemical hormonal components.
So here I both agree and disagree.
I agree with the point that the cultural products of our society are focussed not on cultivating mystery or seeking insight from what kind of feelings the "known unknowns" provoke, but rather explaining away all the facts in a self-generating heap of 'lore'. Anyone who listens to the dweebs arguing over fine points of Dune lore while completely ignoring the central metaphysical theme of predestination and free will can see that this is all about selling factoids as sweeties for the fanboys. Lore sells - and can be fed into some Hollywood AI to generate more so-called stories.
I disagree that somehow we are manufacturing neurodiversity, though there may be a point there in how the autism-spectrum disorders are overmedicalized - drugs like candies. I really can't give an opinion on how much the medication of the issue aids or contributes to its prevalance. From my own family experience I would say that a lot of disability is a side-product of our environmental contamination, though of course such conditions have always existed. It's simply unknowable how many great thinkers, seers or artists from the past were 'somewhere on the spectrum'.
The main problem with the existentialists is that they are almost always prophets of European Man Existence - other forms of understanding the world are simply excluded. The much vaunted Camus for example agonized about his White Frenchman problem in Algiers but without ever considering the existence of the colonized Algierian. it would take Fanon to give us that understanding.
I'm so much an outsider in relation to the current cultural trends, but I get the point.
About the disorders and its causations, it's such a rabbit hole, it's truly multifaceted. I tend to prioritize the cultural question I outlined, it is what weighs more.
The existentialism I talk about is a 'branch' of psychiatry, R. D Laing is one of the most famous.
It's interesting because there's finally some praxis of the philosophy.
Oh, Fanon himself was a psychiatrist too, but I haven't explored his work yet.
R.D. Laing is something I read when I was much younger, it tended to confuse me back then, but I ought to have another look now I've experienced and understood some of his 'Knots'.
It was recommended by the most traditionalist type schoolmaster you could imagine, a kind of Churchill clone, so that was odd. It can be surprising what people choose to adventure their brains in sometimes.
I haven't read his Knots, it's wild, not a good starter I guess. It's recommended to go to the book where he lays the basis of his existential psychiatry 'The Divided Self An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness'.
In this book he shows his experiences with his patients and applies existentalism, which is great because it opens a understanding of the inner world of the schizophrenic instead of treating him/her like a retard. Laing too, understood that many of the insane were actually resisting against an insane world, but without 'good defenses' thus turning to madness.
It was revolutionary at the time, the 50s.
Laing of course wasn't an angel, it was a good endeavor at the beggining but soon it was institutionalized, it was the famous "Anti-Psychiatry" movement. Which Tom Szasz, an even more radical psychiatrist, criticized.
They understood the insane better, but they still kept them in cages so to speak.
There's many others like Karl Jaspers, Henri Ey, Ludwig Binswanger, Eugène Minkowski, Medard Boss, Joseph Gabel, Louis Sass.
That's too much, a specialization at this point 🤭. I've explored some and they were all very insightful.
Murphy, now an off topic thing. I see you use the symbol of the Acéphale group. Terrific.
Ever heard of the game Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs?
There's a video I strumbled accross these days of a guy interpreting it using Bataille's philosopphy.
At first I thought myself, "it must be one more retard masturbating over with the excess offered by late-stage civilisation"
Even then I've chosen to watch anyways, it was hard to ignore. Here is it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbmHllkfTtw
I'm scared as fuckkk