paranoia

[Jochen Stremmel]

Ever since he first popped out of the egg man has been weeping. When John
Milton presented his argument for *Paradise Lost*  he said, "Of man's first
disobedience / and the fruit of that forbidden tree I sing ..." and hardly
anyone finishes the poem. It's all part of the old school of "nobody gets
out of here alive," the reflection, whether in mirror, lake or coffee cup,
most often vanishing in seconds, that something is terribly wrong. This,
after all, is a world where it took the Catholic Church over forty years to
issue a "position paper" on why the Church did nothing in particular to
interfere in the Holocaust. Jeremiah spoke in jeremiads and still makes
rather good reading for strong stomachs. (Sunset Limited, Jim Harrison 1990)


Am Sa., 6. Okt. 2018 um 17:00 Uhr schrieb Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>:

>
> The ancient doctrine of original sin, variants of which occur
> independently in the mythologies of diverse cultures, could be a reflection
> of man’s awareness of his own inadequacy, of the intuitive hunch that
> somewhere along the line of his ascent something has gone wrong. To put it
> vulgarly, we are led to suspect that there is somewhere a screw loose in
> the human mind. We ought to give serious consideration that somewhere along
> the line something has gone seriously wrong with the evolution of the
> nervous system of Homo sapiens.   (The Ghost in the Machine, Arthur
> Koestler 1968, 267, p. 238)
>
> ….Let us note as a possible hypothesis that the delusional streak which
> runs through our history may be an endemic form of paranoia, built into the
> wiring circuits of the human brain. ( The Ghost in the Machine, Arthur
> Koestler 1968, 267, p. 239)
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