http://ranprieur.com/#9a417fe513f58988c3b5b1e84cfc57397194a79b 2019-12-23T23:50:23Z Ran Prieur http://ranprieur.com/ ranprieur@gmail.com http://ranprieur.com/#df23cf92715a49b861d333d0ba257dd34a1866d9 2019-12-23T23:50:23Z December 23. Another thought about that hypersanity article. The author is trying to reframe our thinking about weird people, as a spectrum with normal people in the middle, the insane on one side, and the supersane on the other. He thinks he's being helpful: "Be nice to that weird person, they might be supersane."

Speaking for the weird people, stop trying to divide us. Consider supposed supersane Nelson Mandela. He started out as a violent militant fighting for racial justice, exactly like American abolitionist John Brown. If history had gone differently, we would see Brown as a saintly patriarch, and Mandela as a failed loony.

Or, the difference between the "insane" and "supersane" is not their personality or their mental state, but how useful they are to the normals.

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