Hi all
I don't really have much to contribute here but I have grown up surrounded by
various forms of insanity. My father, who passed away last year (heart
disease), was a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic. I'm sometimes persuaded to
believe that the tendency to commit suicide is genetic, since suicide seems
to run in my family, on both sides. I think some forms of insanity may be
genetic. I believe there are "trigger points" as well. My father, for
example, had no history of emotional problems before serving in secretive
communications operations in Vietnam. That experience could very well have
triggered his schizophrenia (the government has admitted to messing with the
minds of some soldiers during that time; experiments and such).
But I also like Pirsig's views on insanity. These so-called insane people
sometimes see things about the true nature of reality that us so-called sane
people fail to see. Some of history's greatest artists and writers were
insane. Sylvia Plath, for example, who wrote "The Bell Jar." A tormented
woman who eventually took her own life.
And of course Pirsig himself was committed and subjected to shock treatment.
Here we are contributing to a discussion board dedicated to the philosophy of
a man once viewed as insane in the eyes of society.
Jon
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