RE: Is Free-Thought a Mental Disease?
July 11, 2013 at 6:02 pm
(This post was last modified: July 11, 2013 at 6:14 pm by Koolay.)
I don't really believe in mental disease or illness for that very reason.
The brain simply adapts to it's surroundings, for example, if you are born in North Korea, if you are healthy, you will think irrationally as your own self defence, because the punishment for rational thinking is a gulag. In many societies, logic is punished, especially in the past and in back water countries. Irrationality starts at childhood, in a violent and crazy environment, the child has to become irrational otherwise he would receive more beatings and abuse for asking questions that reveals the parents irrational thinking. So the child naturally adapts and learns the language of irrationality, which becomes very hard to shake in adult life. Once you learn a language, it is hard to unlearn.
The brain simply adapts to it's surroundings, for example, if you are born in North Korea, if you are healthy, you will think irrationally as your own self defence, because the punishment for rational thinking is a gulag. In many societies, logic is punished, especially in the past and in back water countries. Irrationality starts at childhood, in a violent and crazy environment, the child has to become irrational otherwise he would receive more beatings and abuse for asking questions that reveals the parents irrational thinking. So the child naturally adapts and learns the language of irrationality, which becomes very hard to shake in adult life. Once you learn a language, it is hard to unlearn.
The only freedom, is freedom from illusion.
