From Humanoid Faults to Manipulated Consensus, 33

We’re associative:

Alas not in the “united we stand”, “strength in numbers” sense, but rather in the “one size does fit all” sense or, to be more precise, “one’s fault, blame all”, “all the same” one. It has been said that sanity is the ability to discern, to detect differences and similarities, and insanity is the inclination to the inverse, so let’s take a brief closer look at what that “inverse” is.

To begin with, we’re talking about degrees: say we’re being asked what differences there are among the pieces coming out of a mould; one degree is answering their colour when this is the case; a greater degree is answering their individual manufacturing faults; an even greater degree is answering that even if they were all same colour and faultless, they’re anyway not the same piece, they’re made of different molecules and occupy a different space.
Secondly, what these degrees consist of when proceeding in the opposite direction? It’s easy to say “all men/women are the same”, but what does the person saying this think, exactly? It’s an interesting exercise to conceive, to track how little by little, step by step, separate things become the same thing, the very same thing, in the eye of the beholder. At first, it’s when one really loses it that one thinks to oneself that “all men/women are the same”, but that’s just a silent moment that subsides pronto, and one is fully aware that idea is false, extraneous and resulting from an altered state of madness. Then as one piles up burst after burst, slowly the bolts loosen and the leaks show up and worsen. Until one is not aware of being temporarily overwhelmed any more, for the very good reason that that state has by now become permanent, and that idea is no more felt as extraneous; on the contrary, what one once used to say as a joke, one is now saying with dreadful seriousness: now “all men/women are the same” for real in one’s eyes.