To quote you: " These dualisms are very ingrained in Western culture and there are plenty of them, and bipolar just doesn't fit in as the mood changes from one side to the other
and one is not 'crazy' (inferior) all the time." I was with you for a while there, but your
views are too narrow to my way of thinking. Sorry. I can't ignore the best of the bipolar
personality to bend to this kind of thinking.

Do you really believe that people like Beethoven, Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, John Keats, and thousands of other artists didn't "fit in" and were "inferior" (crazy) when in an episode? These artists captured the best that culture had in their ages and were geniuses. People really do reveal themselves when they start making judgmental statements.

It is true that geniuses are often isolated from the rest of society because their thinking and
creativity are far above the capacity of the general public. Did you know that more artists who have won the Nobel Peace Prize for literature have been bipolar than all other winners in the
literature category?

You've missed it on this one, I'm sorry to say, because the bipolar personality is not inferior.
It just may be that many of them are far more intelligent even in their worst moments than
the general population is at any given time.

How is it that you single out Western culture as having dualisms? What about the Yin Yang
theory of Chinese or the duality of good versus evil in many other cultures?

Be wary of stigma; it is usually present where there is a lack of knowledge about the human
brain, its capacity, chemistry, intelligence, spirituality, tastes, and many other aspects,
including compassion, care, love, and respect for people, period.

It was Socrates who said that. Plato created the work that reveals Socrates' life; he was
a student of his master. It is true in the sense that what education teaches us is how
little we really know.