Friday, May 06, 2005
irony
One of my favorite quotes comes from the back of a type o negative cover. "never mistake lack of talent for genius" This quote gets to me in many ways. I don't know who originally said it, but the implications are deep for me. I think about this alot. Sigmun Frued, Adolf Hitler, and thier ilk. How many of them were just insane? How many people are touched, moved, and influenced by raving lunatics?
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I'd say sanity is pretty relative because that sounds kinda smart.
I'd also say that crazy people keep the rest of the word sane. Everyone's mind grows restless and plans escapades. Sadly, we can't all host an intellectual Disneyland.
If we did the roads wouldn't get built and the sewers would stop up and all the shills wouldn't be able to get to work to pay taxes on those roads and sewers so it's left to the dreamers and insane genius' of the would to give the people that are "confidently sane" something to think about when they get home from their drudgery.
Dave Chapelle and, most certainly, Jerry Seinfield are insane. But they make the tedium of the masses a little more rosy.
We are all pretty durn insane if we drop our pretenses and live uninhibited.
Inhibition and fear caused by societal conditioning rules you, and I, and everyone else to a point.
Think about all the absurd beliefs people get dressed up for on Sundie mornin'.
One insane influence I had was Jim Morrison...
At seventeen I was "touched, moved and influenced" by this guy who was a raging, drug-addicted-alcoholic-nutcase. He believed that he was possessed by an Indian that he saw die in a roadside crash in his youth. A few lines of his prose helped me to think a little different and now the sunsets are prettier.
He was insane by most definitions, but he gave me something.
Aside, the TON quote makes no sense to me at all and let's not go knocking crazy people.
Oh, and what he said ^^^
/defending insane people
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