Author: Time's Arrow
Date: 02-13-04 11:15
It's schizoid, not schizophrenic! Schizoid is the separation of the psyche into two distinct personas ( in the book, that would be Phil and Horse ), schizophrenic is waaaay different from something as simple as that.
Ronnie Laing - he is the most correct about schizophrenia.
PKD writes amazingly about schizophrenia in Martian Time-Slip, the way Jack Bohlen's character is written is spot-on. Nothing to do with the two-personas, altho' there's a part when it is explained how such a split can come about.
Plus the way Arnie Kott starts to go schizophrenic is just so very accurate - the part when he is trying to answer the phone and he is thinking so fast that he cannot do it right -
well I bet that most mental health types still don't have the awareness of such thought processes, they just use drugs to slow them down because this is a world built (recently, over the real world) for idiots hiding from their crimes against God and Nature, and no I don't mean 23-me*
You might be interested in one or more of the following :-
Schrodinger's Cat in the box experiment,
(the observer effect on reality outcomes),
the film Black Box Germany,
(drop the debt, b4 the Berlin Wall came down),
and something I read somewhere long ago about a man called Jack Parsons who had to do with the space programme and did entertain a lot of sci-fi writers at his house in California.
*no, not the Con Air 23, and not the Smiley Face in The Crow either, the real acid house Smiley face, and Sirius 23.
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