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Dumb Lowtax posted:Schizophrenics have a pattern recognition system that works too well -- like it's on overdrive. What if it's not a mistake of genetics, but a defense mechanism? Schizophrenics are usually the ones shouting about the CIA secretly loving us over even when the farthest left folks otherwise aren't, and they're technically right. They're looking for patterns even when there are none to be found. But sometimes there *are* patterns to be found that the liberal majority naturally cannot pick up on. At those times, do schizophrenics align with leftists? they identify government conspiracies because that's the organization that they've associated with 'power, reach, and motivation to do conspiracies'. they could just as easily say 'the masons', 'the church', 'the literary world trying to suppress this author', etc if they have some lingering connection which says 'that group is bad because of the information i possess'. it's a function of how they interacted with the world and where they saw relative power. quote:And at all other times I suppose, schizophrenics are dysfunctional -- when there are no insidious patterns to spot, their minds work on overdrive to drive them crazy and waste their energy on things that aren't real. it's not even 'no insidious patterns', it's 'their separation from reality tries to focus on specific things to the exclusion of everything else'. it'd be like taking every possible precaution against a tiger attack while in a grizzly bear habitat. quote:We see the effect of sociopaths on politics -- fascist leaders, mobsters, spooks, trolls and so on tend to have the disorder -- they tend to have similar personalities, they find each other, they form teams to manipulate the larger crowd into getting what they want. That's the right wing part. What if the left wing complement of this phenomenon is schizophrenia? Are paranoid and partial schizoid types like me driving politics leftward to counteract how psychopaths are driving it rightward? mental illness knows no political spectrum. there's plenty of right-wing/authoritarian schizophrenics who do conservative things according to what they perceive as god, as i'm sure that there's plenty of left-leaning/egalitarian sociopaths who would want a more equitable society just to use it to their advantage. a person's politics can be shaped by and potentially even controlled by their mental disorder, but that's still a function of their internal politics and monologue. it's not going to steer them in a direction they would be completely against going in the first place, though that raises the philosophical question of "if your political beliefs are amplified to unhealthy levels based on your mental illness, could you even be considered on that political spectrum?" edit: obviously, none of this is meant to disparage anyone with schizophrenia. redneck nazgul has issued a correction as of 09:31 on Jan 17, 2020 |
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