Fixed Cross wrote:Mental illness ... always a condition of society, or of family or of whatever type of irrational resistances to power a human environment has. Mental illness does not occur in the wild. Rather, it is a beings escape into the wild from the insane conditions of humanity.
Agreed, domestication is the problem...
Though you seem to be ascribing more weight to "power" than is warranted.
To me the only valid power is the power to defend (by offense, if required) the efficiently-resource-exploiting people of logic against the vulgar attacks opportunistically mounted by the inefficiently-resource-exploiting people of absurdity.
The latter are rightly called "barbarians" or "peasants" and hated by the evolved thinkers of in fact, all lands. I myself come from India though I admit that here, traditionally at least if not so much today, barbarians often had their way.
Things are usually better here than in France or Italy, however... thinkers are not troubled.
PS: Geographically, the general extent of thinkers' hardship, which characterizes overly barbarian cultures, is roughly proportional to the contours of this graph:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Worl ... s-laws.png