Mind's Eye Re: Madness and Sanity

We gauge madness and sanity through reason. We lay out the facts and
project the outcomes. We divorce ourselves from emotions and
sentimentality. We adjust to the pain or disappointment, if necessary.
However...many drug themselves or become paralysed with the inability
to control the situation or another person. Sometimes this leads to
dumping the entire blame on another person and failing to see if and
when we were part of the problem or the solution.

On Feb 10, 8:36 am, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://youranonnews.tumblr.com/post/42506354980/heres-an-uncensored-c...
>
> Christopher Dorner the former LAPD officer gone rogue is clearly mad
> if the link above is his work.  There's a persecution complex and he
> wanders off into statements about public figures as though they'd give
> a toss on his opinion.  The probably squalid murders he's committed
> are somehow justified in a messy story of himself as public avenger.
>
> My own view of the world is probably more extreme than Dorner's.  I
> don't believe we get much right in our organisations and I'm sure we
> suffer from collective madness and denial in most of our dealings with
> each other.  I don't believe that the vast majority of our cops,
> nurses and so on are hard working and generally do the right thing -
> rather most people don't care much and spend an awful lot of time
> 'looking the other way'.  The truth is that most of our complaints'
> systems don't work and were designed not to.  The kind of evidence of
> what I'm saying here is the Hillsborough Report - this demonstrates
> that rather than standing up for truth, pretty much every cop lied and
> the public was mislead for more than 20 years.  Nurses are leaving
> patients who can't fend for themselves lying in their own mess and
> even worse.  Abused children are left with abusers.  What really
> convinces me we are getting almost everything wrong is an absence of
> real statistical reasoning - what we get is performance management
> (juking) and promises lessons are being learned that last until the
> next serious incident comes to light - when the promise is used again.
>
> I wonder what separates me from sad/bad jerks like Dorner?  I don't
> kill people and wouldn't, much as I liked the film, dream of doing
> Dirty Harry - the evidence is rarely clear enough.  The truth is
> usually banal and even dull.  I can't work out how I know Dorner is a
> clown and yet believe police complaints systems are hapless and cover
> a multitude of sins.  I know most whistleblowers face dreadful
> smearing, but this guy is out of it.  John Kiriakou seems sane and the
> US finally mad in sending him to jail and making Brennan head of CIA.
>
> How do we gauge madness and sanity?

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