Who is Crazier than Whom?

January 10, 2013 — 1 Comment

There is no crazy in the big overview. There is only true and false. To establish a mental health norm we need to establish a norm for the plain old truth. The truth will set us free, but the will to quibble about what is true is stronger than our will to be free.  I attended the University of Texas at Austin in 1968 where our very famous tower had been featured a couple of years earlier in the first spectacular insane school shooting in America.  The tower says, in giant letters, “You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free.”  During the school year someone managed to steal Bevo ,the longhorn mascot, and take him to the top of the tower to hold for ransom. I believe this was part of the Send Bevo to Biafra movement, but that is not the important point.  The point is that Bevo himself could be taken to the top of the tower two years after the mentally ill Nam Vet found the perfect spot to take aim at society…that tower.  Let us not debate what is true and not true, what is safe and not safe.  Let us take a rational overview to see what is happening to our social fabric.  Let us be willing to be still and know the truth in order to be set free from our own self inflicted crazy.