Psychosis is Normal

A person having a "psychotic break" can't distinguish between their inner world imaginings and the 3D external reality world. If you witness a friend or relative struggle with psychosis, it's frightening, especially when that person might have been competent and balanced previously. That reveals the mind-model of reality is as contingent as physical health. "You" have potentially as little control over your mind model as you do on getting a cold or breaking your leg.

The concept of a "normal" mode of consciousness and a "psychotic" mode of consciousness implies that this state is "rare", especially if you ever witnessed someone lose it that way. However, once you start considering all the nonsense and bullshit that compels peoples' lives all over the world, the "psychotic" condition seems to be the norm.

"Lawn care" is a good example of a completely imaginary, groomed compulsion. Through the summer millions of people in the US are ruled by an image of uniform green squares. When their grass departs from that image, they must mow. People will spend $10,000 on a lawn mower machine. People who can't DIY anything will spend $1000 for a mechanic to change their oil and do other minor service on their mower. Some people pay thousands of dollars per year to landscapers to maintain that image, and never even go out of their house and walk on the grass, or even look at their flower beds. It's all very strange.

Political parties are another great example. Dolts imagine they are on a "team" with a scumbag like Donald Trump or Joe Biden, and the only thing preventing a utopia is the bad guys on the other team. That stultifying mental model dominates some people's entire lives. All the contrary evidence and day-to-day experience of actual reality doesn't change their mental model one iota. They'll argue with the other team until they're blue in the face about random issues they have zero first hand knowledge of.

There's endless examples. As I wrote in the previous post, much of this psychosis is cultivated by "the ruling class", many of whom earnestly believe it. In that scenario, they more or less project their own reality model onto their cult members and the shared delusion forms a herd. People scoff at a group like Heaven's Gate, but actually live that Heaven's Gate life. Their own personal Marshal Applewhite could be a boss, or a political figure, or some talking head who's preaching about COVID, global warming or any number of other topics.

One of the interesting reactions to this cult grooming is people who reject all facts or any model of reality that doesn't seem authentic to them. For example, the flat earther people glom onto a "theory" they consider the opposite of the authoritative teaching of "globe earth". The flat earthers are scorned, but they're actually more enlightened than a lot of people who simply regurgitate an authority's statements without any actual knoweledge.

The realization that one is going to die and that nobody knows anything is a good antidote to these forms of psychosis. Another useful realization is quite a lot of the human world is composed of inanimate objects that actually feed on human energy and attention, aka the world of the dead. The lawn care industry is a great example of that. People feed a giant grass beast and kill all kinds of other creatures to maintain their green square image. In some jurisdictions, it's even written into the laws that the plants in a yard can only be so long.