Friday, March 27, 2015

Mania: Is it Real?

March 26, 2015- "The edge, there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who know where it is are the ones who have gone over it."

There are a lot of people in the world, whether they be characterised by "normality" in the clinical sense or "mania" in the Greek etymological sense. Going over the "edge" can mean anything, but mostly it is losing your grip on reality within the context you choose to live your life in. Dick Hickock and Perry Smith start to lose reality and go over the edge as soon as paranoia regarding their rendezvous sets in. But when does the paranoia start, or even end? Their lives have been disassociated and disoriented for years now, hopping between towns and states and cities, Alaska to Kansas, Kansas to Alaska. Never have they seen so many strangers, will they come back, the people- themselves and the victims (whomever that may be defined as legally or literally by definition)? But you cant just explain the events and expect everyone to understand. No one will understand.

But is that bad?

no.

It's always okay to go past the points or reality, whatever that may mean for your sense of mind and circle of self-awareness, but you always have to come back. The best guidance and reference for reality is our dependency on family values, but more generally familiar values. Without the familiarity in our lives, there is no relativity, there is no reference to a reality. The best guidance and reference is our dependency. Without familiarity we are nothing. Without social, even propagandised, structure we are nothing. Let's hope we all become something.

Stay at the edge, but don't bury yourself in it.


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