Philip K Dick on How To Tell Who’s Insane
“One of the things I have always noticed is that many people equate insanity with extravagant behavior…that is where someone is shouting or being very violent, ya know very impassioned but when something is done very calmly and dispassionately that this is rational, that rational and dispassionate are somehow synonymous… and that a person who speaks in a modulated voice, and a calm voice is the ipso facto; a rational person….not someone who screams, shouts, cries, you know rants and stuff….this is a typical anglo-saxon fallacy…you know you won’t find this in Greece, you wont find this in Italy…this is beautifully illustrated by the Gestapo, by the SS, Hitler gave a very important speech, one of his major policy speeches to the Gestapo… was that they must never enjoy the death of the Jews in the camps…they must never get emotionally excited by it, they must view it calmly and without feeling…” -Philip K. Dick
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