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The Mental Calisthenics of Insanity
We are not actually into separate realities, but it seems as though we are in our perceptions. And so this really started happening in at a new level during the pandemic,. The time that you were referring to two years ago. We saw what happens when people go mad when sense and meaning start to collapse. There are different reactions. One reaction is to retreat even further into the old orthodoxy - which requires that you exclude more and more data points. Another reaction is nihilism. Nothing makes sense. There's no explaining things, and just to kind of stop even trying to make sense. But then people can get also trapped in that phase too. So these are the different ways people go insane