{"id":2360,"date":"2026-06-30T17:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2026-06-30T17:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:45:12","slug":"insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2026\/06\/30\/insanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Insanity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"781\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/271_2026_0227_153150_SevilleMOMA_Small-1024x781.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2361\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/271_2026_0227_153150_SevilleMOMA_Small-1024x781.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/271_2026_0227_153150_SevilleMOMA_Small-300x229.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/271_2026_0227_153150_SevilleMOMA_Small-768x586.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/271_2026_0227_153150_SevilleMOMA_Small.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Insanity is not a sign of a broken mind &#8211; it is a side effect of normal brain function in combination with collective cultural delusions. Our brains normally function by fitting reality into the framework of our predictions. Our cultures constitute a collective framework of assumptions underlying those predictions. If our predictions override reality in a way that differs from everyone else&#8217;s, it constitutes madness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insanity is not a sign of a broken mind &#8211; it is a side effect of normal brain function in combination with collective cultural delusions. Our brains normally function by fitting reality into the framework of our predictions. Our cultures constitute a collective framework of assumptions underlying those predictions. If our predictions override reality in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[55,381,23,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2362,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions\/2362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}