The Modern Psychosis And Dysfunction

'Psychosis,' (and let's face it, reading here recently you could be forgiven...) means someone is experiencing an enormous distortion within their brain processing, of the thoughts and emotions they are having, and in such a way that they have lost touch with reality and are 'seeing' things as 'there' which are not there. It doesn't mean necessarily that their senses only are distorted, since people of rational mind might be able to realize that certain sense impressions they are receiving are hallucinatory or perhaps being affected by drugs or alcohol, for instance.

What it really means is that their inner mind is delusional.

As a generality, society at large does not say that 2 billion Muslims are all delusional, for having believed in the word of someone who 'saw' a preternatural being come down from a star, to 'within two bow-lengths' and force him to 'recite' something he had never before in his whole natural life ever seen or read at all (in fact he was illiterate, according to the standard tradition). I mean unless we see the same thing with our own two eyes, it's 'a story' where the 'proof' is reliant on something other than the incidents themselves; technically, the 'proof' is meant to be the Quran - this is the 'miracle' which constitutes proof of the narrative. It's a weak argument but it happens to be the argument...

But then nor does society say that someone two thousand years ago who apparently voluntarily accepted his own torture and crucifixion was delusional and subsequently that so have been all how ever many billions who believed this other narrative ever since.

And that is because there are other rational supports to the basic import of those two stories and their entailed ideas and beliefs - and those beliefs are completely rational: a) taken to the extreme limit, altruism is the ultimate force for wider social 'good' (in the one philosophy), and b) God is so supremely powerful that mere humans must simply accept anything without question that a Sole, Unitary, Supreme Deity, might decide even out of whimsy, otherwise we run the risk potentially of 'eternal suffering.' So fear - especially fear of the unknown or even the unknowable mind of a largely unknowable god - is a rational concern; and Allah does rule by fear. So did Jehovah to some extent.

They are both rational positions, although in the case of the Christian ethic, there actually is no requirement for there to exist a 'Deity' at all for the underlying moral equation to still be rational - only that the proposition stands that extreme altruism is the ultimate moral force. It may not be, but this does not counter the fact that the thing is still a 'rational' position rather than a genuinely delusional one.

Yet there are still issues which remain unresolved when it comes to considering what the nature of the human species really is.

The human race as a broader social thing, is quite dysfunctional...

The question today could be asked, is the present obvious dysfunction seen in societies almost right across the whole globe, something new - or has the human race always been socially dysfunctional.

We have art, but we have Covid too, that's also art, right?

All the great religions come from the perspective that indeed, the human race is dysfunctional from some early time, so much so as to be requiring intervention by something outside of it and vastly superior in every way - IE something called, 'God.'

So does the dysfunction stem from delusion of some kind? Is the human race suffering a kind of psychosis?

Well, certainly it is!

Now here's a huge problem when it comes to some external agency attempting to 'fix' this psychosis simply by 'appearing' and 'teaching:' you see, it (the dysfunction) is inside the being, the problem lies inside the nature (of the human), and not, quite evidently it cannot be, a question of insufficient information and knowledge. Thus, presented with new and better information, the human being if it were still delusional inside, within its core structures and neural systems or at least processing and thinking parts, would disregard the accurate new information and 'rationalize' (albeit falsely) away from truth and reality, and back to the natural incline of its internal flawed mechanisms which always cause it to perceive things incorrectly in the first place.

So it's the internal mechanisms and even structure and other ambiguous features of the human that require to be changed. Not more and better information simply being imparted or delivered.

Today, the 'worry' is that Google distorts information and
suppresses things they don't like or don't agree with - but they're also
just plain not interested in things they perceive have no value or meaning.
They don't suppress those things at all - they're not even aware of them.

I am not going into why human beings naturally tend to perceive reality in a distorted fashion - not here, not right now. What I am going to say is that this is one very major reason that - were there to be some advanced alien humanoid people here, and prepared to engage with us, to interact with us 'fairly' (by which I mean not in an underhanded and surreptitious way disguising who they really are from us), at minimum they are going to look at who they are doing that with, which actual individual 'subjects' they are engaging with at all, and ascertaining that these are exceptions who are not as delusional and therefore as dysfunctional as the mass of the human population. 

Today it's very clear we are living in a completely delusional world - the same 'solutions' to the same problems that have been here since Cain killed Abel are being trotted out, with the exact same arguments being indulged in by the same 'two sides.' And this is, if not the definition of 'psychosis,' it certainly is the definition of madness, as you know. And at the same precise time, half a dozen or more sovereign nations are quite intent on committing people's lives in violent exercises to 'gain land and/or power.' Which has also been the normal status of things for ten thousand years.

The mindset is simply not available, to the ordinary normal human being, to think of, or to find, 'another way...'

Carl Sagan's answer to the Fermi Paradox fits into the basic pattern of human nature: namely that people get satisfaction from harming and killing... And if that pattern is true of all advanced intelligent species throughout the Universe than yes, it would tend to support the idea that eventually, they all destroy themselves. And Sagan posited that this 'might' be one reason we never saw any advanced aliens here or anywhere - they'd all killed themselves.

But Carl Sagan's proposition flies in the face of certain facts...

And my suggestion is that 'if' advanced intelligent beings are not going to kill you, then what else are they, or might they be, going to do to you?

My proposal to these beings is, don't do something to me, do something for me. How about that for a plan?

Do something for me. Let's run with that idea for a bit.