Thoughts 30 Apr 2006 05:50 pm

The world is getting stranger

Has anybody else noticed the increased number of people who talk to themselves out loud and continiously?
I met a woman who was a bit under 40 and talked to herself even while she was talking to me, not only did she talk to herself, while she was talking to me, the two conversations weren’t even related. She also had crank face, you know, those sores tweekers get from picking at their faces.
I saw a woman in a grocery store parking lot talking to the person next to her, the obvious problem was that there was nobody sitting in the passenger seat.
One of the people that I thought had turrets syndrome, turned out to be clinically schizophrenic, and his outbursts were caused by his yelling at somebody who wasn’t there, other than those minor interruptions, I enjoyed talking to him.
Someone else I know, will get into a fight with his wife and then go out to the garage to yell at her while she’s still in the house, this has probably saved his marrage, but, while he may find this to be therapeutic, his wife and I both think he has a screw loose.
I don’t think this sort of behavior is seen more often because we no longer lock people up just because they’re weird. I think we see more of it because we have way too many people in too small an area, which creates some of these symptoms, and the new more powerful street drugs are becoming more and more socially acceptable.

For my part, I’m firmly convinced I may well be the last sane person left in the world, after all, sanity is strictly a matter of opinion and the rest of you are crazy.

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