One thing that always strikes me as relevant when we're dealing with stuff like pandemics where people are out holding massive parties etc.
It's not that most people are stupid.
It's that they're utterly insane.
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Most of what gets labelled as mental illness is small potatoes compared with people's regular everyday priorites.
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I know people who have traumatic brain injuries, serious personality disorders, schizophrenia or worse and most of them are far saner than this.
There's a profound lack of soundness to the way the social fabric has been stitched together. An almost complete disconnect w/reality.
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I don't mean to stigmatize people with mental illnesses, here. Rather the opposite.
There are just too many ways buying into the wrong social norms will cause the worst possible collective distortions in belief & behavior.
Obviously, this is rarely discussed in polite company.
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As someone with decades long severe mental illness, I heavily disagree. But if you're talking what people 'think' mental illness is, vs the actual reality of living with it, then that's different
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I'm talking about there being a lot of disturbed beliefs that don't fit into the disease model because they aren't understood to cause suffering to the person holding them.
Many of these disturbances are dangerously common.
It's not to say mental illness isn't debilitating.
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