I’ve already touched on this in a prior post, but there was one long, drawn out episode I had in the years before taking meds that featured a thought complex that involved my past history of sz, things I studied, and some political beliefs. I write about this now, because some memory of what I was thinking at the time has returned to me. The things I did will not be included. So I had this idea of irony that I can remember more fully now was closer to situational irony, but was kind of sociological in that I was thinking about how expectations are structured in society. Norms are one way we create expectations of others in terms of behaviours and things. I guess I was thinking something like anomie, which is normlessness, was kind of ironic. But I also had this idea that irony and analogy had a logical connection, so one could act ironically or analogously. I had read Rand and the image of the individual separating from the collective and making an invention (or idea) that undermines the collective was in my mind ironic and the idea ironic because it was contrary to the expectations that the particular society has. Further I was thinking that in a highly collective society, a cultish society, it would possibly take someone with a pathological difference to separate from the collective and since I was interpreting invention as idea, that a paranoid thought, an odd thought, an unconventional thought or other cognition characteristic of schizophrenia would undermine the slavishness the society is based on. So I started to develop this disproportionate idea that sz had a greater function in terms of social process. The reality is that while sz creates paranoia that can be a catalyst for revolutionary thinking, sz itself usually has the result in communities of people saying “wtf is wrong with that guy”, and the normalness of the society prevails even stronger.
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