And, BTW, thanks for your constructive influence on what was an interesting discussion. Perhaps you should have listened to her regarding social skills.

This brings up an interesting point about delusion as a contributing factor. I am not talking about hopeful vision or seeing what might be. I am talking about the kind of delusion that manifests when the individual finds the existing construction around him too painful to face up to. You could call it the Mitty syndrome, I guess. Anyway, maybe that's one of the Mickey Mouse factors behind what we are calling, loosely, Western stupidity. The thrashing and posturing and arrogance which comes from subscribing to delusory movies about one's own existence (as with the imaginary Donald up thread).

Freud once said that he was growing accustomed to the idea that every conversation involved four people. But he was talking about four real people, two participants representing their two parents each. When you add this other factor of delusion in, every conversation runs the risk of involving scores of unreal characters and scripts, making it really tricky to maintain a conversation on a common reality!

Just a thought. :>)


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