Intelligence in the service of madness!

There is compelling evidence that human-beings suffer from a serious mental disorder, and are perhaps even insane. If we research into the last thousand years, we can realise that there have been an endless catalogue of insane behaviour. Recorded history shows endless wars, and the brutal oppression of the great mass of human beings by a tiny privileged minority. The terrible oppression of women which runs through history, women were burnt as witches, always targeted by psychotic militants and this still exists in many parts of the world – is another sign of this insanity. The science had spend lots of time and money in research and if we had looked into it, the scientists had created weapons, they have discovered different types of weapons to destroy the humanity. So these intelligent people in the service of madness. Where is this madness coming from?

Eckart says, if If the history of humanity were the clinical case history of a single human being, th diagnosis would have to be: Chronic paranoid delusion, a pathological propensity to commit murder and acts of extreme violence and cruelty against his perceived 'enemies'

( his own unconsciousness projected outward).Driven by greed, ignorant of their connectedness to the whole, humans persist in behavior that, if continued unchecked, can only result in their own destruction.Tolle points to the history of the human race as a history of madness. In other words, that which we consider 'normal' is at its very root, dysfunctional. What we consider 'normal' arises from the ego, and the ego is rampant with greed, pride, the lust for power, anger, fear, jealousy, insecurity, etc.

'My blood boils to think of these idiotic men! How many divisions within us, they are more than a crore!… -Bharathiyar( freedom fighter and a tamil poet)

Insanity is a sane response to an insane society

From the moment of birth, when the Stone Age baby confronts the twentieth century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents before them, these forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities says Laing. According to him this enterprise is on the whole successful. By the time the new human being is fifteen or so, we are left with a being like ourselves. A half crazed creature, more or less adjusted to a mad world. This is normality in our present age.

he says further that family life is to induce a false consciousness of security: to deny death by avoiding life, to cut off transcendence, to believe in "GOD", not to experience the void, to create in short, one-dimensional man, to promote respect, obedience, to con children out of play, to induce a fear of failure, to promote a respect for work, to promote a respect for respectability’. Do not adjust your mind, the fault is in reality!

(Laing, 1967).

I am not sure whether he wrote this in anger, or in the moment of perfect clarity. Socialists will have no problems agreeing with him. He might sound bit naive for Scientists. At present, I feel like a blank slate upon which society writes its narrative. Helplessness?