On Sep 15, 8:02Â pm, "Sean"
now.com.au> wrote:> "Doing the same thing, over and over again for decades, and still expecting
> a different result."
This is just a goofy AA slogan. AA is, of course, that religious
organization that purports to be the only cure for the disease
of alcoholism. Nevertheless, this can't really define the word
"insanity," for reasons the poster Jack pointed out, and for
the simple reason that it doesn't even capture the essense
of psychotic mental illness.
> And yet still many people believe that substantial structural change in the
> way politics and economics works is anathema, impossible, or not necessary
> in the world today despite all signs and evidence to the contrary.
Well, we could all stand lower taxes. But that's not
something new.
> Of course underpinning all this is the way the majority of people continue
> to think, and what they choose as being of greater value over other
> available options. Yet there are none so blind as those who refuse to look
> in the first place. Others just need a little help.
So you are advocating a religious enlightenment true believer
sort of thing?
> Consider the following definition on a mass scale across a nation or a
> civilisation ..... what would it look like overall, and how would it
> manifest across varying groups and individuals?
Actually, as Nietzsche told us, "Insanity in individuals
is rare, in peoples, nations, parties, and races it is
the rule." Where would we be without Nietzsche's
honest sense of humor? I'd add 12-step organizations,
churches, and mass protests to the list, but that's sort
of implied by induction.
> Paranoic Type Schizophrenia - a form of schizophrenia characterized by
> delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy); symptoms may include
> anger and anxiety and aloofness and doubts about gender identity; unlike
> other types of schizophrenia the patients are usually presentable and (if
> delusions are not acted on) may function in an apparently normal manner.
Doubts about gender identity? Where did you get this
definition, from some obsolete Freudian text?
> --
> "Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it." RFK 1968
"They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one
day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do."
Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian who shot RFK
