Yesterday, at the bus stop, an older man suddenly turned to me and said: “Please, sir, kindly do stand a little further away.” And when I turned to him my puzzled face, he added: “Because you are carrying that radiation device.” Schizophrenia: a case of patently mis-wired brains.
But how does it really differ from the nonsense the President of the Republic spouts? The stuff he says is also patent nonsense; why is that not immediately apparent? Is it because his condition is fairly common and those with the same condition relate to his words? Is it like a population of calculators in which a substantial portion are mis-wired to return “five” whenever asked to give “two times two”. When one of them says “five” some scream “nonsense!” and some “the very thing!” But when a lonely calculator, more severely retarded than others, says “nine” they all shrug their shoulders and say: “poor man”.
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