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[vaa]

“The real hopeless

victims of mental illness

are to be found among those

who appear to be most normal.

"Many of them are normal

because they are so well adjusted

to our mode of existence,

because their human voice has

been silenced so early in their lives,

that they do not even struggle or suffer

or develop symptoms as the neurotic does."

They are normal not in what may be called

the absolute sense of the word;

they are normal only in relation

to a profoundly abnormal society.

Their perfect adjustment to that

abnormal society is a measure

of their mental sickness.

These millions of abnormally normal people,

living without fuss in a society to which,

if they were fully human beings,

they ought not to be adjusted.”

Comments

[deloric]

This is a good one! Chris and I have often mused that the poeple who appear to have mental disorders may be the normal ones, because they are unable to live in harmony with this fucked up system. Everyone else who is functioning here must be ill to be in acceptance of our society.