Absurdity, Craziness, Logic, Mental Health and Self-Mutilation

Absurdity, Craziness, Logic, Mental Health and Self-Mutilation

What is absurd, crazy or logical could mean exactly the same thing, because craziness means terror and despair, while absurdity is what is far from objective reality, and therefore provokes a lot of damage to the individual and their environment. Logic is only a collection of rational deductions. If their base is absurd, they will certainly lead someone to complete craziness.

I have already mentioned in my articles how absurd our civilization is, where terrorism, violence and immorality prevail. The hypocrisy and indifference of the population that doesn’t live in poverty tries to hide all the horrors of our world, and the peace which exists in all countries that are not at war is a peace based on violence, since it is based on the existence of powerful weapons in all countries, which are always threatening everyone.

We have many examples of pure craziness in the entire history of mankind.

One of the worst examples is the guillotine: “a device for beheading a person by means of a heavy blade that was dropped between two posts serving as guides”, which was widely used during the French Revolution.

What do you think about seeing someone losing their head this way? Do you believe that something like that could be considered sensible?

Today you consider it completely barbarous and insane, but the people that used the guillotine believed that it was something logical and useful, because it had a purpose that could be justified.

This is exactly the main illusion everyone has: they believe that if something can be logically justified, it is sensible.

However, the explanations one may find while justifying their barbarous actions will never eliminate their absurdity, since violence can only lead to terror and despair.

The same can be applied to any kind of justification.

Today for example, we observe that certain portions of our population, especially teenagers, tend to cut and burn their own bodies.

Self-mutilation is a violent action against the person that injures their body and against the entire society that feels despair observing such self-destruction.

However, if you ask the young people that injure their own bodies why they do that, they will give you many subjective and absurd explanations, believing that they can this way justify their behavior, as if their explanations could eliminate the insanity of self-destruction.

They will even feel offended if you dare to call them crazy, even though self-mutilation is an action as barbarous as the use of the guillotine…

Real mental health is not based on words and on ideas, but mainly on sensitivity, because this is the only guide that can help someone understand if they are being insane or sensible.

Only when they understand how other people feel about their actions are they really in contact with objective reality, instead of lost in their own fantasies and suppositions, and only when their actions are based on goodness and not on selfish conclusions, can they be considered really balanced and sensible.