Szaphrenia
1 I think the schizophrenic symptom of thinking the celebrity in the TV is speaking directly to you is perfectly valid, because the technology of the TV is so new anyway, and if we were living in prehistoric times, that celebrity could be a tribal leader or something actually speaking directly to you. Like, in Requiem for a Dream, when that old lady on Valium thinks the people on the TV are talking directly to her, maybe it wasn't the Valium at all, but a sense that something should be the way it isn't. Does that make any sense? 2 I think not making sense, and hence schizophrenia, are essential elements of existing in the modern day, as pretentious as that may sound. (It is such a broad swath of characterization to characterize something as existing "in the modern day". But it's true, insofar as I believe it's true.) In order for something to make sense, it has to adhere to a preexisting notion of sense-value that is built upon years of systems that serve to...