Psychosis
Psychosis a symptom of an illness? In the sixties and seventies it was a trend to label the psychotic person as normal and society as sick. Nowadays psychosis is purely an illness that had to be suppressed. But how can psychoses have outlived evolution if they weren't functional?
If we are still the creatures made for the primitive horde, then the overalertness and paranoia of psychotics suddenly become understandable. In situations of great danger they might have been the fittest. Their state of extreme alertness could have saved the group from otherwise fatal situations.
In other words, as a group maybe you didn't survive without a couple of what we now call lunatics. A group of solely 'normal', calm, so-called rational pragmates coul have been an easy prey for natural enemies.
Some of the questions that arise: how did they control the psycotics in prehistoric times? Is there more psychosis in our times and is the cause to be found in our individualism? Does psychosis occur less frequent in cultures were families still live together? And isn't over-stimulation also a cause? Are psychotics and all other over-sensitive people scouts on our hidden evolutionary way?
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