Publisher's Synopsis
Read We're All Insane! Second Edition to Discover--
- How To Think
- How To Correctly Use Thinking
- How To Think Saner & Better
- How To Avoid Mistaking Thoughts for Things
- How To Make Friends with Deconstructivism
Insanity Versus Reality
- Discover six reasons why you are insane.
- Insanity is being out of touch with reality.
- Active insanity is clinging to illusions and delusions.
- Illusions are misperceptions, misconceptions, and mistakes about reality.
- Delusions are misperceptions, misconceptions, and mistakes about reality that we have evidence against but cling to anyway.
Thought & Thinking Problems
- You can live sanely in an insane world.
- You must choose against the common illusions and delusions of your society and your conditioning.
- All the common illusions and delusions of the world are constructed through the misunderstanding and misuse of thought.
- Discover how thought becomes a problem when thought replaces reality.
- Discover enough information and examples to be able to negate thought as reality, which enables you to re-experience "what is."
Deconstruct Thought As Reality
- This work is an example of the power of the path of deconstructivism.
- In contrast to constructivism, deconstructivism frees the heart, soul, and mind to return to their original natures and natural senses.
- When you clean out the clutter that you are burdened with from your constructivistic conditioning, you will find a new "you" and a new world.
- Eastern philosophy, Existentialism, General Semantics, iconoclasts, and cognitive psychotherapy all make use of deconstructivism to achieve their goals.
- Be forewarned: If you choose to walk the path of deconstructivism, many will resent your bursting their reality bubbles along the way.
Words Refer to Meaning
- Words have no inherent meaning, but words must refer to some meaning, else they are just noise.
- When one changes the referents of words, then the meanings of those words change.
- A change in context can change the referents of words, making the meaning change too.
False Conflicts
- Two identical phrases, sentences, or groups of words might have different meanings due to such a difference in referents.
- Thus, people often claim or point out conflict in meaning where there is none.
- Their mistake is in thinking identical or similar word usage must have an identical or similar meaning in all situations wherein they appear.
- They easily and quickly forget that dictionaries list more than one meaning for most words.
False Referents Cause False Conflicts
- "Out of sight, out of mind," does not conflict with "Absence makes the heart grow fonder."
- Why? Because the referents of the first saying are preoccupied with the present and therefore forget the past.
- Conversely, the referents of the second saying are dwelling on the past and therefore miss or wish for the past.
- Both are true in context.
- The sayings contradict each other only if they are forced to have the same referents because of some misunderstanding, naiveté, or desire to force conflict for drama's sake.