Albert Einstein, one of the greatest minds to ever live, said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Is that condition of existence ever, okay? Are there times in life when doing the same thing repeatedly in hopes of a different result, makes sense and is appropriate? The long answer is, kinda. It’s okay to be insane if insanity serves a purpose. People are encouraged to go insane through the various apparatuses of life. This point resonates with me specifically within the context of relationships. From a 50,000-foot level, isn’t love insane? Loving the better out of someone who has no real inclination to get better. That’s insane. But people do it.
Professionalism or the concept of work period, is insane, especially so depending on the contributing factors of your subjective experience. Politics is insanity when everyone across both or various sides of the isle legislate the same or similarly. These few salient examples have one thing in common, humans. To what degree are humans inherently insane? I mean we are creatures of habit. This matters because how do you extract meaning out of spinning your wheels for weeks on months on years on decades end, fundamentally getting nowhere, without deploying some type of slave mentality.
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Originally published August 08, 2024.
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