Do you think people can be more or less BP-like (or psychotic), do you think people in general, or society, can be and do you think people are in general becoming more BP-like?
The popular revolutions in politics in some influential countries with conservative political systems might be an example (Brexit, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Jeremy Corbyn), in that the ideas people have are more based on emotion, intuition and experience and less on rationality.
The Internet has negatively impacted the quality of professional journalism and has allowed people to organise themselves and rationalise their intuitions, with arguably mixed results. The media has become far more monomanic and more easily influenced and quick to react due to reduced revenues and increased competition. There's less analysis, reflection and critical thinking.
Do you think these developments are good or bad in general? And for us?
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Mania kills cells. Brain cells die. Memories become more reduced conceptually, making more efficient use of limited means. Memories shape our reality. Our memories are more or less split in two by abstractions, conceptual reductions. Mood states with memories, concepts, attached. Memories of pain and those of joy. It causes instability, changeability. Fearing that will leave an emptiness between pain and joy and a greater divide.
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