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[Syne]

Right. Not insane at all. 9_9

[Magical Realist]

Define insane.

[Syne]

Insane is an adjective describing something characterized by severe mental derangement, unsoundness of mind, or extreme unreasonableness. While formally rooted in psychology and US Law, it is widely used in casual conversation to denote absurdly irrational or remarkably impressive things.
- gemini

I can guess which part you'll cherry-pick.

[Magical Realist]

Insane is an adjective describing something characterized by severe mental derangement, unsoundness of mind, or extreme unreasonableness.

Who's standard of "unsoundness of mind"? Who's subjective measure of "extreme unreasonableness"? Yours? That sounds pretty unreasonable in itself.

[Syne]

I'm not playing you're little post-modern deconstructionist game. You can either figure it out for yourself or you, much more likely, can't.

[Magical Realist]

"Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world."--- R. D. Laing

[Syne]

In September 2008, his lawyer son Adrian, said, "It was ironic that my father became well known as a family psychiatrist, when, in the meantime, he had nothing to do with his own family."
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._D._Laing

The "Insane" World: He scrutinized how societal pressures, rigid social norms, and fractured family structures create environments that inflict deep psychic trauma.

The "Rational" Adjustment: He viewed behaviors that society diagnoses as mental illness (like psychosis or schizophrenia) as meaningful responses or escapes from unendurable external circumstances.
- gemini

So he created the very "fractured family structure" that he acknowledged as causing "deep psychic trauma," and then rationalized how the response to the trauma really wasn't a bad thing.

And many people experience the same "societal pressures, rigid social norms, and fractured family structures" without hearing voices in their heads.
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When hearing voices co-occurs with mental health conditions, it is often tied to a breakdown in how the brain distinguishes internal thoughts from external sounds. Mental illnesses associated with hearing voices include:

Schizophrenia: Approximately 70% to 80% of people diagnosed with schizophrenia experience auditory hallucinations.
Psychosis: Can occur in conditions like bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, or severe depression.
PTSD: Trauma survivors may hear voices associated with past events.
- gemini

[Magical Realist]

The "Insane" World: He scrutinized how societal pressures, rigid social norms, and fractured family structures create environments that inflict deep psychic trauma.

Right on. Totally agree. Tks for confirming! Not to mention homophobia, racism, agism, materialism, politics, disease, crime, mental illness, poverty, war, religion, etc.

So he created the very "fractured family structure" that he acknowledged as causing "deep psychic trauma," and then rationalized how the response to the trauma really wasn't a bad thing.

If you say so. Don't know what that has to do with the truth of his quote. Did he masturbate in port-a-potties too? lol

When hearing voices co-occurs with mental health conditions

Right..like when concurrent with disorders symptomized by other things besides hearing voices like mania, thought disorders, paranoia, anhedonia, flight of ideas, insomnia, etc. Has nothing to do with hearing voices non-concurrent with mental illness.

[Syne]

What you call the "truth" is transparently self-serving.
And you can keep your cherry-picking strawmen.

[Magical Realist]

What you call the "truth" is transparently self-serving.

No, you just have no concept of the inherent truth value of propositions, none of which depends on who said them or what they did in their life. Ex: "Religion is the opiate of the people." Absolutely true even though penned by the father of communism.