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Schizophrenia is the price we pay for minds poised near the edge of a cliff

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Re: Schizophrenia is the price we pay for minds poised near the edge of a cliff

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> She thinks she's in some kind of Truman show that she calls "the game". Might be depersonalization. I had suffered from it in my twenties; everything feels fake, although you know it is not.

Derealization, I believe - not depersonalization? Believing everything around you to be made up - perhaps even by yourself in some cases. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, just trying to make sure I have the terminology correct

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its not like capitalism forces the hand of a gay person any moreso than a straight person , I dont see why the extra time on hand of a gay person could not be devoted towards aiding children in the family for example babysitting or financing extracurricular activities , a gay person elsewhere in this thread concluded as such

I'm thinking from the shoes of Sam Altman. "I'm gay, I'd rather become rich and famous and build OpenAI then babysit my nephew" I'm saying capitalism forces our hand to the maximum extent such that it eats away all time involving free favors to other people. The ladder is unlimited in height. So if I have 8 hours or 16 hours available for productive work it doesn't matter, I'm going to allocate all of it to capitalis…

what can i say man that may be the case now adays but we did not evolve under capitalism
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