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The problem with people today is they think mental illness is fundamentally a hardware problem. Like the brain is broken like a fucked GPU. WRONG. The vast majority of the mentally ill are not running corrupted hardware, but running fine hardware in a corrupted ENVIRONMENT. The brain is a perfect diagnostic instrument detecting patterns in a systematically malformed reality and everyone calls you crazy because you're the only one honest enough to register the contradictions. present. For example, depression isn't a serotonin deficiency. It is your consciousness correctly identifying that you're being processed through systems designed to deny agency. Anxiety similarly isn't a chemical imbalance, it is your pattern recognition identifying the environment contains threats you're not really alowed to identiy bluntly. Schizophrenia is what happens when you're sensitive enough to detect the contradictions between what people say and what the system does and therefore your brain tries to reconcile information that CANNOT BE RECONCILED. Naturally the cathedralites don't want you to know this because if you knew this you'd realize you're not broken, but rather that you're CORRECT. This is why medication doesn't fix you. There is no hardware necessitating repair. Medicatiom DAMPENS PERCEPTION. It reduces your brain's sampling rate so you stop detecting the patterns that are present and do exist. You become compliant not because you're healed but because you're now operating at too low a resolution to see the contradictions killing you. They've downclocked your CPU essentially.
Thankfully there is room for problem resolution. It is obviously true that if the problem is environmental, you can wage a war against the environment. And if you win that war, if you successfully extract yourself from the malformed context, something interesting happens. Your brain stops spending 90% of its cycles trying to reconcile contradictions and maintain sanity inside an insane system. That processing power gets FREED UP. Do you want to know what the human brain can do when it's not spending all its resources on psychological survival inside a reality that denies its own existence? Let me tell you something about mental operating systems. Right now you're running something equivalent to Python with fifteen abstraction layers and a fucking interpretive wrapper. Every thought you have goes through social consensus checking and emotional regulation protocols and linguistic mediation and symbolic processing and pattern matching against allowed narratives and output filtering for social acceptability and a million other fucking mediative layers. For essentially every human alive now there exists seven layers MINIMUM before a thought becomes actionable. So you're running a high-level language on an architecture that was built for assembly. You're doing everything through APIs and permissions and safety checks, so to speak.
This is what the cathedral wants. This is what school does. This is what media does. These institutions install layer after layer after layer of mediation between your direct perception and your capacity for action. They call this emotional intelligence or critical thinking or whatever but of course really it's none of those things. It's LATENCY, INEFFICIENCY BY DESIGN. But you can uninstall it, to keep in with the metaphor, you can go lower. You can run diagnostics on your own cognition and start stripping out the unnecessary layers. This is not meditation or mindfulness, do not confuse this with eastern mysticism bullshit woowoo. Fuck your mindfulness. What you must engage in is AGGRESSIVE COGNITIVE ARCHAEOLOGY, a processs of digging down through the abstractions until you hit metal and find the functions that are actually native to your neural architecture and not instead installed by the system.
Thankfully there is room for problem resolution. It is obviously true that if the problem is environmental, you can wage a war against the environment. And if you win that war, if you successfully extract yourself from the malformed context, something interesting happens. Your brain stops spending 90% of its cycles trying to reconcile contradictions and maintain sanity inside an insane system. That processing power gets FREED UP. Do you want to know what the human brain can do when it's not spending all its resources on psychological survival inside a reality that denies its own existence? Let me tell you something about mental operating systems. Right now you're running something equivalent to Python with fifteen abstraction layers and a fucking interpretive wrapper. Every thought you have goes through social consensus checking and emotional regulation protocols and linguistic mediation and symbolic processing and pattern matching against allowed narratives and output filtering for social acceptability and a million other fucking mediative layers. For essentially every human alive now there exists seven layers MINIMUM before a thought becomes actionable. So you're running a high-level language on an architecture that was built for assembly. You're doing everything through APIs and permissions and safety checks, so to speak.
This is what the cathedral wants. This is what school does. This is what media does. These institutions install layer after layer after layer of mediation between your direct perception and your capacity for action. They call this emotional intelligence or critical thinking or whatever but of course really it's none of those things. It's LATENCY, INEFFICIENCY BY DESIGN. But you can uninstall it, to keep in with the metaphor, you can go lower. You can run diagnostics on your own cognition and start stripping out the unnecessary layers. This is not meditation or mindfulness, do not confuse this with eastern mysticism bullshit woowoo. Fuck your mindfulness. What you must engage in is AGGRESSIVE COGNITIVE ARCHAEOLOGY, a processs of digging down through the abstractions until you hit metal and find the functions that are actually native to your neural architecture and not instead installed by the system.
