What percentage of people are sane?

I haven't heard about this but it fits perfectly in with what I see the government as... an arm of corporations with the primary objective of keeping the corporations profitable and as well- classifying excessive intelligence and critical thinking skills as a disease to be treated. How difficult for a farmer when his cattle know what his agenda is... the oligarchs need to be stampeded I think.

 

What the cattle needs is a good organizer to rally everyone. There are enough pissed off people to make a difference but there is absolutely no organization.

Here's the section of the New Freedom Comission of Mental Health concerning screening school age children.

http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Se...Management/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=28321

Its worded very nicely but the underlying message I keep seeing is "catch abnormal thought processes early" and "treatment," which of course translates to money for the pharmeceutical industry.

 

Ordinarily I'd agree but the traditional leader furnishes a convenient point of attack to effectively take the wind from the sails of a protest/reform movement. People need to be led to information themselves so they can see clearly not only the issue but also the implications of continued apathy.... so it is their inner sense of justice that motivates them and not a charismatic target.

The oligarchs cannot be allowed to perceive any specific "who".

 

I agree that people should be motivated by their own sense of justice but I think the problem with that is that although a lot of people are waking up to the injustices of this country, no one knows quite what to do with their knowledge.

I do agree that a charismatic target is not the ideal motivator. However, for any group to be effective they must act as a cohesive unit. If not a charismatic leader, then there still must be some factor that organizes the group. I've been ruminating on what that organizing factor could be for a long time.

 

A date. Place and time.

 

Everyone I know in this world is so fed up with this world that it is making them go insane, in my opinion

 

For what? I'm thinking more in terms of a meeting of the minds. What we need is a good ol' fashioned town hall meeting where everyone is allowed to air their grievences and those greviences should then be aired both very articulately and very loudly to the powers above.

Forums like this would be a good starting point for something like that.

 

That's what I meant. A place and a time where people who are united in their distaste for something (whatever it may be) can get together and discuss/act on a way to go about changing it. A leader can organize people, but if people cared enough to gather somewhere and show up at the place, they could act as a motivated group without someone to lead them.

 

hmm. So whats the best way to go about doing this?

Sorry duck. I think your thread has officially been hijacked.

 

I chose not to pick anything cause I think everybody is sane. I don't know if you ever looked at the DSM-4 which is basically the bible of mental illnesses with the criterias needed to diagnose someone, but going by that book, I am certain that any given human can be diagnosed with a mental illness.

The term sane is a big rip off IMO

 

I think that there is a great deal to be learned from those in countries like Tunisia, Egypt, etc. who recently showed the entire world that people will find a way to communicate and a way to be heard where they cannot be silenced, i.e. the internet.

I agree that forums like this would be a great platform.

Forget the media, forget politicians. Fuck them. They will never represent or speak for the people

 

I'm going to start a thread about this when I get a chance.

You can have your thread back, Duckie.

 

I put it out here so the public could use it as they please (Like when I leave newspapers on the bus)

Can't wait for your thread though.

 

well, it's quite an easy calculation, it is:

no. hipforums members / total world population x 100

15, 3024 / 6,775,235,700 x 100 = 0.002%

subtract the insane, be it 0.002, from 100 - you will get 99.998%.

 

I fear that insanity lurks just below the surface of all of us.....;-0

I think I said 31-40%, but I was insane when I did the poll?.....;-D

 

Would a sane person go through life in endless conflict with himself and others? Would he strive for personal success ignoring everyone else, living in his own world of ambition, greed, fear, the desire to succeed along with the corruption, pollution and destruction that goes with it? It's impossible. This is almost every person on the planet. Only when we recognise that we are ill can the healing begin.

 

Sometimes when I'm almost certain that I'm going crazy I come on hip forums.


Where I'm reminded of the fact that I'm certainly not the only one...

 

51-60

I think that probably represent those who are functionally sane.

Meaning some within that may have sanity issues but function within society.

 

Thats not my point. To me ''insane'' insinuates that you are crazy or somehow broken. I do think that as a society almost all of us need to get our shit together, that we are all somehow blocked off from any type of ''negative'' emotion, that all we do is distract ourselves from that stuff, making most of us neurotic and.....

yeah ok fine, in that case most of us are insane.

 

that was also my point. this place has the biggest of nut jobs.