Insanity

A new feature of the Lower Makiki ‘hood is the continuous late night incoherent screaming and yelling originating amongst the growing clinically insane homeless population in the area. Clinical insanity is not just a random occurrence. Most of the clinically insane, homeless or not, are a product of chronic substance and alcohol abuse.

Substance and alcohol abuse, like opioid addiction, is a symptom of a greater social crisis amongst the rank-and-file peons of empire. Sedating the mind eventually causes adverse problems, including severe personality disorders which often lead to forced emancipation from wage slavery, consequent eviction from rental housing, and eventual homelessness. Senior citizens also face similar and more debilitating circumstances. Sometimes old age maladies cause severe behavioral disorders which eventually bring about homelessness as well.

The Great Prophet, Ernest Becker, in his prescient work, “The Denial of Death,” identified that the root cause of all psychological disorders is the curse of consciousness, namely mortality. The “vital lie” is the key to maintaining mental health. However, conditions for the rank-and-file peons and senior citizens of empire have deteriorated to such a degree that the “vital lie” can no longer serve its purpose.

With the focus of entire human lives now centered entirely on money, there are no other avenues for relief except temporary diversions. Hence, people are locked into addictions of all types simply to escape the one pathetic reality that engulfs and suffocates them. There are no adventures remaining in life. Everything is now a function of the nauseating wage slavery, debt slavery, and consumption cycle. Every paid venue follows the same homogeneous and formulaic path. Even the vaunted “vacation” has been reduced to mere shopping experiences. Who would not go insane?