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>>11894371
>self referential minor insanity
I like that you put it this way. It's no secret that the world seems to be going through a sort of epidemic of depression, alienation, anxiety and such. My personal guess is that contemporary ways of sociation imprint a separation between Self and Not-Self way, waaaaay too strongly. To put it in different words, contemporary society is making people way too self-aware, to the point where they're constantly beset by overthinking, pointless worrying, irrational fears of social failure etc. And doesn't that ring a bell with the disorders I mentioned? One important factor here is that, as far as I can see verbal thinking encourages this self-awareness, this stark division between Self and Not-Self. It doesn't cause anxiety and depression itself, obviously, but it seems obvious to me that being "stuck" in verbal thinking 24/7 would inevitably lead to unceasing rumination, which is precisely the root of those disorders. A person becomes too balled up in the Self to the point they unconsciously develop this solipsistic dettachment, as if the Self is something completely apart from the society, life, the univese and everything -- or in simpler terms, that person is permanently beset by the feeling on not belonging, no matter what they do, where they are nor with whom. Like a ghost doomed to always witness and never participate, excluded from everything for unfathomable reasons, certain that, just as they don't belong anywhere, no one can possibly understand them. And the irony here is that there are ever more people feeling like these ghosts, yet their wretched condition prevents them from bonding even over that very condition! Is it any wonder we're all anxious sadsacks today? We're all perfectly discrete bundles of Self, incapable of reaching out and of living in the now, and being stuck in verbal thinking might be at the core of this problem.