OCD & Philosophy

When scholarly work is both read and listened to, information-absorption is exponentially greater than when it is either read but not listened to or listened to but not read

When scholarly work is objectively boring, that is not because it is so loaded with content; it is because it is so empty of content, which emptiness is filled in with pseudo-content, which people rightly shut themselves off to, in the way that organisms shut themselves off to pathogens, the result of which is that people are not engaged with the work in question and are therefore bored by it.

The connection between OCD and bureaucratism is not that the bureaucrat has OCD; it is that he is OCD. Bureaucracy is societal OCD. And actual OCD—i.e. individual-level OCD—is the individual’s ways of assimilating societal OCD.

More bureaucracy equals more suppressed rage. More suppressed rage, coupled with half-acceptance of bureaucratic protocols, equals rage that is expressed in the distinctively, bureaucratically repetitive and detail-oriented way that is the hallmark of OCD.

People with OCD are intelligent, both emotionally and cognitively, and they also have strong senses of right and wrong. In the obsessive-compulsive, these assets are being misdeployed. But when existent, they can always be properly deployed. So given proper therapeutic treatment, the obsessive-compulsive's prognosis is bright.

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For thinkers, God (in the form of rarefied alethic and ethical norms) has replaced people, whereas for people people, people have replaced God.

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When a child is sent to a psychiatrist, the first place to look for psychological maladies is in the Munchausen-by-proxy mother’s head, not the child’s. The child’s mind is the place to look for fall out from the blast, not for the blast’s mom-centric epicenter.

The philosophy version of Wikipedia.