“This is madness”
Meaning, a unique viewpoint?
Knowing the causes of BSE and Alzheimers, real madness, it loses it’s scare as mere, although a bit weird, sickness.
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Signtist@lemm.ee 6 days agoI’ve seen this image floating around for a while, which breaks down the reasoning - or lack thereof in certain media - pretty well.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
Signtist@lemm.ee 6 days ago
I think they’re talking about “justified” madness. Realistic madness is just seeing things that aren’t there, or reacting extremely to mundane stimuli, but if you had somehow been given comprehension of some higher truth about the world that nobody else would ever believe, the actions you take as a result of that knowledge might seem crazy to those around you, even if they’re perfectly logical from your enlightened perspective.
shneancy@lemmy.world 6 days ago
for a sample of such madness please try arguing with someone about a topic you’re very familiar with, and they clearly know fuck all about but refuse to learn or listen to anybody but themselves and their echo chamber!
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
The point regarding seeing the world from anothers view reminds me of ‘Story of your life’ by Ted Chiang, a brilliant short story that also has a movie based on it (Arrival) which is also my favourite movie despite the, imo, botched ending.
Spoiler alert:
As the lead character learns the aliens language and can now interpret time and generally the world they do, you get to a different kind of consciousness.
As I type this out I relaize its actually kind of off topic after all lol.