The perverse bragging I was doing was aimed at establishing credibility concerning your theory of discontinuity of the personality at induced or spontaneous psychosis. I do understand the description, I am just telling you I have rejected it based on personal experience of the discontinuous periods and of the mending periods. There are alternate explanations.
Whether there is a hairline crack in the Logic Board of a madman or alternatively, whether there has been bad logic introduced to his OS is, as you say, too subtle a call to be certain. Since our ways to fix the board are less than infantile, while our ways to introduce new code to patch, workaround, or fix the bad code are documented (to some applicability) across centuries, any effort on the board, beyond research is wasted.
I Suspect the need for attention, good theory and methods to the 'fix' has made me overbearing on the subjects with you. [Were I to actually Know, I would not have been so overbearing.]
<<a tablet called STP>>. 1971, Atlanta Pop Festival. No chemist around, but that's the 'diagnosis' of my friends and my own 'postmortem'. All this stuff does have a strange hold. I actually dropped one more time. My younger siblings, however, have found 'acid' very useful and in no way troublesome. |