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Originally Posted by Mutt
'Dumb' crazy isn't very interesting, more comical and sad to watch somebody with low intellect attempt to make sense of the world and contribute to it.
Intelligent psychopaths/sociopaths are very interesting, brilliant ones are fascinating and scary.
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I think "dumb crazy" is far worse as a problem. The prisons are full of "dumb crazy". Bikers, gang bangers, cartel/mafia, murderers etc.
I'm not worried much about a rare Silence of the Lambs personality that understands he's broken. Though serial killers are often psychopaths and highly intelligent, they are a very tiny part of the problem, no matter how much entertainment value they offer. The problem to me is the guy that is broken and doesn't understand he's broken. Cam_girls was a great example of that. "Medication doesn't help schizophrenia when the voices are real" as he actually said.
Intelligent sociopaths are everywhere. They are all around us. They are running companies, practicing law, ruling Wall Street etc. The US now leads the way in the growth of sociopathy. 1 in 25 people and getting worse. A shitty thing to mix with a culture that's all "me, me, me, me"
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The real 'crazy', people who live in a very different reality than the rest of us, only interest me from a neurological point of view. Their wiring is all off, I don't believe schizophrenia has much to do or anything to do with how somebody was raised - though haven't done any reading on it so have no idea what experts say today about the disorder.
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I think every aspect of who we are is a complex mix of genetics and environment/experience. And "reality" itself is very very subjective. Moreso than we accept or want to believe because we are wired to look at others as being "normal" and "like us". We are wired to assume that people think the way we think, see things the way we do etc. We can't imagine what its like to be a sociopath. We can't imagine what its like to watch a puppy get put into a microwave and not feel anything at all... we can't imagine it. This is why we are surrounded by crazy people and do not often realize it. We rarely see them for what they are.
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Sad that there are 8 billion neurons in the brain, most unmapped, and we have doctors pretending to understand all these psychiatric disorders. We have barely scratched the surface of a decent understanding of the brain.
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Brain scanning technologies are making quantum leaps constantly. I think we understand a great deal and of course there is a long way to go. Peoples wiring is in large part, unique not only to them, but to them in that particular point in time.. as the neural plasticity of the brain is constantly wiring and unwiring neural connections. This, among many other reasons, is why you can't really use brain scans effectively as evidence in court. Regardless of the visible deficiency, lesion, damage etc, too much is unique to the individual.
I actually just read Connectome not too long ago, which is about the idea of mapping out an entire brain and all its neural connections.