Since those who talk to themselves aloud are publicly deemed deranged,
everyone else then is – privately insane.
Ordinary people, (quite surprisingly!), do not see it this way. What goes in their head they do not equate with the activities of a lone figure on the streets, mumbling audibly to an invisible listener, but a difference between the two exists only in their own words to themselves.
Sophisticated, sane-by-the-majority’s-definition people, are always apprehensive of those who audibly and publicly, (as ‘tis commonly called), talk-to-themselves, and have no doubt that such people are not part of the normal majority. They are routinely felt to be in fact, dangerous, in that a human must be extremely out of touch with reality to engage in such behavior, and be so apparently unaware of their condition. Indeed man, institutionally through law enforcement, the judicial system, and the medical profession, treat the audible talking to oneself as a prima facie sign of mental illness. Yet, unheard, in private do all men, judges, gendarmes, psychiatrists, and everyone else, suffer-from or, engage-in, would be their preferred term for the phenomenon in their instance. It is the exact same thing, but as applicable to themselves, as the majority call it – thinking.
Quite a fascinating, unpublished photo we have here. Picture it: a certain human something that if you do it quietly in private, you are okay, but if you do the same thing vocally, in public, so that everyone else is forced to be aware of what you are doing – you are crazy. Throughout it all, everyone on the planet does it silently, in private, and by merely changing its defaming name from “talking-to-yourself;” to “thinking” to cleanse it of all reprobation.
J.