{ "version": 11, "scenes": [ { "bgImage": null, "bgName": "first.avif", "textBoxes": [ { "text": "If we hallucinate electrical signals into shapes that cause people to hate and hurt each other, we must inquire that", "clickGroup": 0, "shadow": false, "fontSize": 1.05, "posX": 49.5, "posY": 7.8, "boxWidth": 29.8 }, { "text": "Are We Insane?", "clickGroup": 1, "shadow": false, "fontSize": 2.6, "posX": 55, "posY": 32.1, "boxWidth": 20.1 }, { "text": "An article.", "clickGroup": 1, "shadow": false, "fontSize": 1.04, "posX": 45, "posY": 40.8, "boxWidth": 10.9 }, { "text": "In the history of our species, the term insanity has always been a boogey word.", "clickGroup": 2, "shadow": false, "fontSize": 1.05, "posX": 18.5, "posY": 27.8, "boxWidth": 31.4 }, { "text": "To be considered deranged is one of the most gravest insults someone can get in all times, something considered an insult of a very pointed and weird nature. But is it because being insane is a state that is cordoned off to a select few, or have we all always been in a state of insanity, and pointing it out is just opening a wound that no person is willing to touch?", "clickGroup": 3, "shadow": false, "fontSize": 1.05, "posX": 19.2, "posY": 46, "boxWidth": 33 }, { "text": "Sanity is a universal prerequisite for social inclusion. To be cast outside this boundary is to invite ostracization—a reputational damnation that exiles individuals from public discourse. To avoid this fate, many temper their radical views to align with the status quo, repackaging their eccentricities as harmless personal quirks. This self-regulation ultimately allows individuals to frame their psychological shortcomings not as existential failures, but as rectifiable glitches in an otherwise functional identity, securing their place within the collective.", "clickGroup": 4, "shadow": false, "fontSize": 1.05, "posX": 19.5, "posY": 75.5, "boxWidth": 37.3 }, { "text": "To stop from us having to reconcile our own lunacy, we look to those from areas we will and have never interacted with, to stop us from understanding that we all on Earth are no better than those we declare are inferior.", "clickGroup": 6, "fontSize": 1.05, "posX": 81.4, "posY": 81.8, "boxWidth": 30.9 }, { "text": "To brand a group as insane is untenable in polite discourse, so we rely on euphemisms. The Romans chose barbaric, colonial governors preferred uncivilised, and modern netizens opt for third-world. Each term constructs an \"other\" safely distanced from ourselves, allowing us to reduce entire populations to harrowing tales of war, waste, and decay. We still mean insane, but we speak diplomatically to avoid institutional wrath—terrified of being branded with a label as delicate yet damaging as racist, an allusion to regimes like Ian Smith’s Rhodesia or the American Confederacy, both of which were outlasted by feeble modern institutions like XBOX.", "clickGroup": 5, "shadow": false, "fontSize": 1.05, "posX": 81.7, "posY": 46.9, "boxWidth": 34 } ] }, { "bgImage": null, "bgName": "second.avif", "textBoxes": [ { "text": "\"Define 'Insane'\"", "clickGroup": 0, "shadow": false, "fontSize": 2.19, "posX": 47.7, "posY": 7, "boxWidth": 39.1 }, { "text": "You would expect, with a word of such accesible definition, people would be able to easily give examples of things that qualify under that example. \n\nInsanity, however, has rather political definitions and euphemisms for the state. Throughout time, people have classified people, cultures, and areas as either being civilised or uncivilised or barbaric — insane. Calling these people the most diplomatic term closest to lunatics was done with people from Africa and Asia and other native cultures; people did not think that their way of life was wrong when they saw the life of others, they thought that they were the ones that were backwards, they saw them as savages, people who had 'simple' lives, unable to give meaning to life as they had, because they were insane. ", "clickGroup": 1, "shadow": false, "fontSize": 1.05, "posX": 48.9, "posY": 32.8, "boxWidth": 50 }, { "text": "The second was a utilitarian purpose. If we think of insanity as a state — which is only acceptable as people think that it can be solved, cured, or is just a phase — then people would use that justification as a way to extract others' resources, to give them a poor deal in trade, to take over their land, to treat them as not human. To treat them as slaves. Once one declares a group to have a state of insanity, anything theoretically can be done by the dominant group to cure or at least use that insanity to satisfy their own goals. The condition that existed in slave or colonial periods was the precondition that these people were insane to the point that it was of no use to treat them as human.", "clickGroup": 2, "mode": "wb", "fontSize": 1.05, "posX": 49.2, "posY": 74.7, "boxWidth": 49.8 } ] }, { "bgImage": null, "bgName": "third.avif", "textBoxes": [ { "text": "\nThis is why insanity is so inherently political. Insanity is worth something to people, it reduces people to a tool, used by someone else. We can get away with this under the pretence of humanitarianism, to declare someone insane is to also declare that they need help without consent of said help, and would be able to use them for their own gain without controversy. This accounts for a reason why, for so long, antisemitic thought was harboured in Europe and other areas without pushback. In a largely Christian Europe, rejecting Christ and being unable to accept it was a sign of ignorance, a sign that people were unable to learn, for anyone who is unable to learn something so (seemingly) universal was irrational. They would be insane.", "clickGroup": 1, "fontSize": 1.05, "posX": 21.8, "posY": 37.9, "boxWidth": 42.9 }, { "text": "\nWe can label other groups insane basing on these characteristics. When we see someone as inferior, we judge these actions that we do ourselves with more scrutiny than what is necessary and applicable, while treating the absence of those same excused acts in others as proof that they are insane. In essence, insanity is no less a word than it is a tool, a tool that can be paradoxically used on others for our own gain, directly or indirectly, and is the quickest proxy to dehumanise others, which is the greatest power a person can hold over another.", "clickGroup": 2, "fontSize": 1.05, "posX": 21.3, "posY": 74.5, "boxWidth": 42 }, { "text": "Once we dehumanise people, once we declare them incapable based on certain group characteristics, we can dominate them and exploit them without having to seemingly say the word insane out loud. ", "clickGroup": 3, "mode": "wb", "fontSize": 1.05, "posX": 74.6, "posY": 71.2, "boxWidth": 31.6 }, { "text": "We would become God.", "clickGroup": 4, "mode": "wb", "fontSize": 1.15, "posX": 88.9, "posY": 85.5 } ] }, { "bgImage": null, "bgName": "fourth.avif", "textBoxes": [ { "text": "The idea that the hallucination of letters on a piece of dead ultra-processed wood or combinations of electrical signals transmit to glass can somehow dictate actions and be used as a contract to enact violence against another person and that is seen as usual and followed by people across the world is, in itself, insane. Yet, I, among other people, find myself agreeing that this is the usual and preferred state of society. ", "clickGroup": 1, "fontSize": 1.05, "posX": 20, "posY": 36, "boxWidth": 39 }, { "text": "That gives occasion to the question; can you be insane and be perceived as sane? \nThere are instances that we can certainly say this.", "clickGroup": 0, "fontSize": 1.05, "posX": 20.6, "posY": 15.9, "boxWidth": 38.3 }, { "text": "Furthermore, the existence of love, platonic or romantic, where something as arbitrary as blood (which is absent in romantic relations) can give such compelling bias to make decisions that may be deemed irrational or starve oneself of the pleasures of humankind to dictate themselves to the one, unpredictable person is also seen to be insane.", "clickGroup": 2, "fontSize": 1.05, "posX": 79.3, "posY": 63.8, "boxWidth": 39.2 }, { "text": "Lest we be called 'insane'.", "clickGroup": 4, "shadow": false, "fontSize": 1.04, "posX": 50.2, "posY": 96.2, "boxWidth": 22.1 }, { "text": "The reason why we are able to reconcile these as normal is because it is so universal that if we were to deem one of us as practicing folly in these circumstances, it would also deem us too as lunatics.", "clickGroup": 3, "fontSize": 1.05, "posX": 79.6, "posY": 83, "boxWidth": 36.2 } ] }, { "bgImage": null, "bgName": "fifth.avif", "textBoxes": [ { "text": "Have we been always insane?", "clickGroup": 0, "fontSize": 1.55, "posX": 14.2, "posY": 3.4, "boxWidth": 38 }, { "text": "Insanity is treated as animal-like instinct.", "clickGroup": 1, "mode": "bw", "posX": 79.7, "posY": 14.5, "boxWidth": 36.9 }, { "text": "However, people do not like to be seen as animals, as it can elicit a picture of the fearful deer, afraid of its own self.", "clickGroup": 3, "fontSize": 1.05, "posX": 45, "posY": 44, "boxWidth": 34.8 }, { "text": "If this is the case, we have always been insane. Love is simply an evolutionary trait in humans that is seen in all animals and is not unique to humans; law is seen, whether written or not, in all groupings of animals, whether it is sectioning off land for prey and mate. ", "clickGroup": 2, "fontSize": 1.05, "posX": 29.6, "posY": 28.7, "boxWidth": 37.6 }, { "text": "These creatures get killed without recompense, we cannot just see them as another part of the whole that we, as humans, see ourselves. Climate change and the shameless act of spotlighting would not be possible, or at least would not be as prevalent, if we saw mother nature's spawn as one of us and not just an other we can merely exploit for our gain. Through this, we have managed to stop thinking of our own faculties and our own insanity, so we cannot be deemed as senseless as the howling jackal at night.", "clickGroup": 4, "fontSize": 1.05, "posX": 70.9, "posY": 61.3, "boxWidth": 47.2 }, { "text": "Weaponizing our aversion to zoomorphism, modern societies escape into a collective nostalgia for a mythic golden age. Populist factions exploit this yearning, scapegoating minorities as insane disruptors of past prosperity rather than confronting the systemic failures of sprawling, self-serving bureaucracies. Yet, the true madness lies in treating human-made institutions as unyielding, rather than adaptive. If we are to claim a superior humanity over beasts, we must emulate the cooperative solidarity of migrating herds. Because these institutions are our own creations, we retain the power to reshape the status quo to reflect our collective potential.", "clickGroup": 5, "fontSize": 1.05, "posX": 25.4, "posY": 84.5, "boxWidth": 50 } ] }, { "bgImage": null, "bgName": "sixth.avif", "textBoxes": [ { "text": "We forget the beauty of the majestic, strong elk of the wild. ", "clickGroup": 0, "mode": "bw", "fontSize": 1.05, "posX": 59.3, "posY": 32.7, "boxWidth": 45.1 }, { "text": "This is an animal, a beautiful animal, animals that do not have these savage traits as the others, what shall we do with them? These are equally as insane as the other animals in the kingdom, but we see them as beautiful; bees are seen in the wilderness as important and beautiful creatures, but the males die in reproduction. Does that not seem irrational? Part of humans realising we are human and we are as flawed and irrational as any other thing on earth is recognising that we are beautiful, as beautiful as the fauna around us. But we forget to do this, and we always relegate either people who do not agree with us, or the state that we are in, to insane, as we cannot see the beauty there is in those things.", "clickGroup": 1, "fontSize": 1.05, "posX": 76.6, "posY": 54.4, "boxWidth": 44.7 }, { "text": "If hate is truly irrational, harboring it should brand one as insane—yet history shows that supremacist views were once lauded, not pathologized. Have we actually reached an era where hate of any kind is universally deemed irrational? Manifestly not. American politics, the global blueprint for democracy, actively codifies hostility against the marginalised, yet we continue to treat these actors as rational, sane participants in civil discourse. Until we universally recognize systematic prejudice as a fundamental irrationality, we cannot claim collective sanity; if we judge animals that turn on their own kind as irrational, we must apply the same standard to ourselves.", "clickGroup": 2, "fontSize": 1.05, "posX": 24.5, "posY": 84.4, "boxWidth": 50 } ] }, { "bgImage": null, "bgName": "seventh.avif", "textBoxes": [ { "text": "Does it matter?", "clickGroup": 0, "mode": "wb", "fontSize": 1.7, "posX": 50.1, "posY": 5.2 }, { "text": "If we are animals, then our instincts that have tendencies toward insanity will always come up in different circumstances, even if everything else is fixed. In an environment of post-scarcity, we would still have situations of people acting in irrational ways that may break that non-scarce environment. The question that should be on our minds, and the most important one, is: does it matter if we are insane?", "clickGroup": 1, "mode": "wb", "fontSize": 1.05, "posX": 23.8, "posY": 25.2, "boxWidth": 46.5 }, { "text": "In some instances, it does matter. In the instance of hate, we must show that we are working on no longer having the irrational tendencies seen in the hatred of others, and it must be something we continuously work towards. If we understand that we are all insane, we can work to dismantle the causes of irrationality in ourselves, and that, and only that, can show us what it means to be human. \n\nIn that vein, it must also be considered that it does not matter if we are insane. This may seem paradoxical, but at times we must acknowledge that it truly does not matter if we have ideas that seem frantic, as those ideas bleed into the discourse and, if they are not hateful, can help create a new and arrestingly marvellous state of mind in all peoples.", "clickGroup": 2, "mode": "bw", "fontSize": 1.05, "posX": 75.3, "posY": 76.1, "boxWidth": 46.6 } ] }, { "bgImage": null, "bgName": "eight.avif", "textBoxes": [ { "text": "Most ideas that have changed reality were started as insane. There are new ideas all the time, ones that would change lives forever — the ideas of African Nationalism that would dismantle colonialism, the progressive policies of the New Deal Democrats in the 1930s–40s that would prove pivotal to breaking the Nazi regime, the Voting Rights Act. These were all deemed insane thought at one point. We must realise that we need to allow insanity to run free in order for us to actually be human, to love, to be real. The greatest literature and theory in every field on Earth was first considered irrational. To try to stop and cover up this insanity would be the folly of the highest order. We must learn from these, to become better people, become better humans.", "clickGroup": 1, "mode": "bw", "fontSize": 1.1, "posX": 26.7, "posY": 23.7, "boxWidth": 49.9 }, { "text": "As, sometimes, we need to be insane to be human.", "clickGroup": 2, "mode": "wb", "fontSize": 1.1, "posX": 77.8, "posY": 93.1, "boxWidth": 41.8 } ] } ] }