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- 25 de Dic, 2019
Mathematics drives people insane. The list of life-long mathematicians who had nervous breakdowns after years of being fine, and permanently went batshit crazy is endless. It's an intellectual brown-note and is a fascinating field for that reason alone. Tread with caution. There's a lot of literature and a fair amount of documentaries on the subject.
As for his writing, it's important to remember that schizobabble is not true gibberish, in that it is meaningful and coherent to the person who wrote it. It's decipherable, though most people can't parse it due to obtuse (mis)use of niche terminology/jargon and occasional novel definitions. I've had a lot of experience with people schizoposting over the last decade and a half and am conversational in Engschiz-to-English, so I might have a crack at deciphering the manifesto at some point, if I get bored enough. You usually have to interact directly with a babbler at length to parse what they're trying to say, and it takes a lot of patience, but every time I've tried it, I've managed to translate it to plain English relatively well.
Granted, I don't think a forum for laughing at the mentally unhinged is an appropriate place to seriously try to decipher schizobabble, and I'm probably better off just laughing at the Mad Soda Arsonist of Dothan.
As an example for Schizophrenic-to-English translation: Glow in the Dark. The room is totally dark, pitch black, but what's that bright glow that sticks out like a sore thumb? Oh, it's a Fed trying to up his arrest quota. I think GITD is the most famous piece of translated schizobabble, but most of it is like that if you spend time with it.
EDIT: Black Iron Prison from PKD is another well-known, thoroughly dissected bit of schizophrenic jargon with a largely agreed-upon definition now. As for how I have experience with translating schizo to English, I would accept literally any friend request I got on Facebook from 2011-2018, and always found the obviously-crazy ones most interesting to talk to. Some of them probably qualify for threads but I find them likeable enough that I don't want to stress them out.
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