21st century schizophrenic mindset arises from the triple realization that

1) the "guardians of the truth" are lying to you

2) there's no alternate authority out there who can tell you what the truth really is, and

3) there is no way to figure out the truth on your own https://twitter.com/Barnes_Law/status/1294744035702108160

The result, as Barnes gets at, is you know *something* is wrong. But you have no way to know what the true scope or scale of the wrongness might be

It could be a trivial error—or it could be that everything you believe is a lie. And you have to decide which, over and over again

Determining when a lie of way-of-life has been told, and what to do in response, isn't something normal people can reliably do on their own

That's the role of kings and chiefs and inquisitor-priests. And even they only had to decide now and then, not every single fucking day

The position we've been put in is not one we're meant to be in (and is easily proven to be real: why else would the ruling order love SSRIs, weed, and opioids if not as palliative care for its state-enforced schizophrenia)

The obvious question, then, is "So what is the truth"

The only truthful answer is: "We don't know yet"

Yet being schizophrenic is being open to the voices of the gods. Our job, then, is very simple, yet immensely mentally punishing in the meantime: to exist within that schizophrenia, without going insane

Until the word is revealed