Comment by kjgkjhfkjf
5 years ago
The world would be a better place if people unqualified to do so stopped labeling people with whom they disagreed as "insane", "narcissists", "psychopaths", etc.
When you do this, you dehumanize the person, and minimize the positive aspects of their contributions.
If you are not a qualified doctor, please make a new year's resolution to stop doing this.
Mental disorders are by definition relative to the broader society and to other individuals, so they're not that off the mark.
That said, I would indeed rather describe people who spend their lives in specific minutiae as performance artists or zen monks rather than just calling them insane.
It's not like anything we do is particularly sane in any cultural context.