Madness, One Step Beyond. Are You The Hypersane?
"Many ‘normal’ people suffer from not being hypersane: they have a restricted worldview, confused priorities, and are wracked by stress, anxiety and self-deception.
As a result, they sometimes do dangerous things, and become fanatics or fascists or otherwise destructive (or not constructive) people.
In contrast, hypersane people are calm, contained and constructive.
It is not just that the ‘sane’ are irrational but that they lack scope and range, as though they’ve grown into the prisoners of their arbitrary lives, locked up in their own dark and narrow subjectivity.
Unable to take leave of their selves, the "sane" hardly look around them, barely see beauty and possibility, rarely contemplate the bigger picture – and all, ultimately, for fear of losing their selves, of breaking down, of going mad, using one form of extreme subjectivity to defend against another, as life – mysterious, magical life – slips through their fingers."
by Neel Burton
psychiatrist and philosopher.
Read the full article here.
He is a fellow of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford
and his most recent book is Hypersanity: Thinking Beyond Thinking (2019).
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