We're all borderline now

Just a short one.

We, all of us, have been so badly lied to, abused, gaslit, silenced, and targeted with literal insanity that it’s worked. People see “psy-ops” everywhere, about things they wouldn’t have baroque conspiracy ideas about in normal times.

This is people on the left, on the right, and in the middle. It’s all of us. (No, I’m not saying that there’s not a clear demarcator between the left and the right, there is, and it is the left that’s pumping out the most crazy right now).

But all of us are mentally affected by this. Saints and sinners and ordinary people alike.

What I’m about to say I mean plainly and literally, not as a metaphor: We are all functionally borderline personalities now, with a dash of schizo-affective (odd and strange notions, and ideas of reference). And I mean this in the original, philosophical formulation behind the term borderline. The original meaning is people who vacillate on the edge of neurosis (negative, distorted emotions) and psychosis (disconnection from reality). We’ve been made functional borderlines.

I can’t even tell whether reported deaths in a major war are accurate, or off by orders of magnitude. No one can. This applies to almost anything we’re told by medical studies, political pronouncements, media actions. The Tower of Babel has happened. We’re in it.

Even as angry and obstinate as I am about those I consider to be adversaries against wholesome life—I feel for them too. I’m less angry right now on regular days (I let it out on the show), and more sad. I’m finding unexpected empathy for “my enemies.” That doesn’t mean I’m going to let my guard down. It does mean that I know they’re humans like me, and they’re hurt and scared like you and me. I wish it were better for all of us.

Times like this remind me that a world of more decency, consideration, and understanding—tempered by sane boundaries and decent conduct—is better than a world in which we feel we have to fight for our minds and souls every day.

May it come. God knows we need it.

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