"The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation; in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society - and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic."
“Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false
information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices,
in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance albeit
false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes
attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the
laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect
reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life.”
“Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations, that they are individualists, that they have arrived at their opinion as the result of their own thinking - and that it just happens that their ideas are the same as this of the majority."
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