Creative people, like those with psychotic illnesses, tend to see the world differently to most. It's like looking at a shattered mirror Mark Millard UK psychologist This article on the BBC site containing the above quotation is a "case study" in how the mainstream attempts to make sense of what they don't understand. It trots out the same old chestnuts, van Gogh, Dali, even Woolfe's ghost – dripping wet, with stones in her pockets makes a brief appearance in a side-bar list of infamy. Isolated kernels of truth float about in a sea of unacknowledged assumptions so the result, meant to enlighten and reasure, ends up confusing and causing further disquiet, while maintaining the overall morality lesson that to diverge from the "norm" is dangerous.
The Mainstream's Misunderstanding, Part 2
The Mainstream's Misunderstanding, Part 2
The Mainstream's Misunderstanding, Part 2
Creative people, like those with psychotic illnesses, tend to see the world differently to most. It's like looking at a shattered mirror Mark Millard UK psychologist This article on the BBC site containing the above quotation is a "case study" in how the mainstream attempts to make sense of what they don't understand. It trots out the same old chestnuts, van Gogh, Dali, even Woolfe's ghost – dripping wet, with stones in her pockets makes a brief appearance in a side-bar list of infamy. Isolated kernels of truth float about in a sea of unacknowledged assumptions so the result, meant to enlighten and reasure, ends up confusing and causing further disquiet, while maintaining the overall morality lesson that to diverge from the "norm" is dangerous.