The normie is not somehow “more sane” than the internet schizoid. The normie is in the grasp of a different psychosis, and the cure for both is the same: actual real grass touching, doing nothing, being capable of withstanding unmediated boredom.
From this tweet. I think there are forms of being schizoid which are undeniably worse than “normalcy”, such as the people stuck in their echo chamber of conspiracy theories and who cannot function in any way. But overall, I see what the original post refers to. Most people are not sane, even (and especially) if they fit well into the current system.
Normies are swarmed by anxiety-inducing propaganda, agit-prop, in the form of the news, which they take to be “informative”, without ever reflecting as to whether it truly adds to their life and makes them better at building towards what they care about. In truth, the news pacify people and make them predictable through the constant outrage and fear they induce, and I have personally never seen someone constantly plugged to that type of media do anything significant to change their own life.
The same can be said about the demands of work which tire and eat at people's lives, which they love to complain about of course, but do essentially nothing to outgrow. If they manage to get a decent amount of money to not have to work for a while, you find that a surprising amount of people have such empty inner lives that they feel compelled to outright go back to work as an employee even if they don't need the money.
And when most people aren't glued in front of a system-friendly piece of media, or working, then they are—and I truly dread using that word—consuming things, which is a rather suitable description of someone who wants to fill their time with whatever activity is within their reach. Buying things of course, but I think that these days, it has been replaced by a variety of time-fillers on the internet, from social media, to podcasts, to watching broadcasts, to zoning out in front of a show, to playing video games, or watching porn.
The average person is not sane. They do not know what they want, they barely do anything to change their situation. They are not in touch with the present moment, nor are they really intelligent. They might be nice people, very nice in fact, but what dictates their life is not sanity or goodness or freedom or love, it is the convenience of going with the flow of whatever is around them, which is decidedly not a good influence, merely a common form of psychosis.
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2025-02-09