Would you rather be delusional but Happy? Or sane, logical, and a realist, but Depressed AF?
Most ppl who are happy are delusional- no reason for being so overly optimistic when all the data points otherwise. BUT, they are happy.
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You can’t be upset with things you don’t know about. I’d rather be stupid. You were more diplomatic about it, but I would definitely rather be a blithering idiot. The less knowledge, the better.
Yup. Most of the world’s geniuses (as well as artists and writers) have tended to be depressed- Lincoln, Newton, Beethoven, Tolstoy, Dickens, Mozart, etc.
“ignorance is bliss” is not just a saying- it’s the truth.
It’s kind of funny that you asked the question, because if I had a very basic intellect, I wonder if losing my vision would bother me as drastically as it does. Maybe… If there was a magic pill that could erase chunks of my brain, I wonder if i’d take that risk. On the other hand a bottle of arsenic might accomplish my goals just as nicely. For the record, I don’t have access to arsenic.
Ideally to everything there is a time and season. A time to be depressed and realistic, a time to be delusional and happy.
It makes things different, having the door to delusion just available. I can flirt with insanity, if I wanted to cut loose the leash holding me down, well there’s less holding me down than ever.
There are fun things about being that way, I must admit it.
There are nice things about logic as well though, as well as being grounded in what is happening around you. When your environment is as potentially frightening as mine…. it pays to be sober minded and aware.
I’d love to feel safe enough to trust people again. I’d love to feel safe enough to retreat and stop watching the horizon. The only time I felt that way it was because I completely detached from reality. Then I came back to remembering that other people are to be treated with suspicion, and that there is no mercy or kindness in the general population.
The lion is going to eat you, faster if you treat it like it’s a kitten. If you run or fight you might survive. Intellect and perception are adaptive skills that are supposed to save your life. If they aren’t doing that, they aren’t working right.
but we live in the modern world- instead of lions and tigers, we have corporate masters and slavers. Intellect and perception means knowing they are screwing us over, and not having the power to do anything about it. I was much “happier” before 2015- before I knew just how corrupt and evil the democratic party is. I knew the Republican party was god awful, but I didn’t realize how terrible and evil and corrupt the Democratic party was as well. When your eyes are open to all this bullshit and fuckery around you, how happy can you be? Especially since we are peons who have almost no power to do anything about it.
Knowledge ought to bring fulfillment and bliss. If it doesn’t, it isn’t complete yet. There is a shlok in sanskrit: Sa vidya vimuktye — Knowledge is that which frees. I have found it true. There is a phase when knowledge makes us suffer. It happens when new knowledge clashes with old beliefs. It is a phase of turmoil. I have passed through it. Very hard to bear, especially when you’re alone. But that’s part of the process of freedom. Knowledge always frees, and freedom is always blissful.