I wanted to write today about the scene from Gulliver’s
travels, the series.
The link is here to watch.
Gulliver, a doctor by profession, returns after his long and
amazing journey of sixteen years and more, which transformed him with the
enlightenment that another dimension exists for the thought constructs, emotions
and the life of humans and animals.
He talks about the unusual lands, the people, the cultures
and understands the difficulty of assimilating this to the normal stereotypes
of the prevailing travelogues and human social structures and civil laws.
Tom eagerly listens…
He admires him. The father who left him five years ago, came
back from being dead with just memories burdened the ailing neural networks.
He
wasn’t crazy.
His frame was tall but frail, but tremulous with the
emotions of the mustang in the valleys, the eyes sparkling in the deep
sockets.. The hair was just undulating
with his animated choreography as he takes the audience of his friend, wife and
the eager little boy.
“I wish I could’ve come with you… to see those Lilliputians, the
yahoos and the noble Houyhnhnms, Dad”
He didn’t say that.
He knew his mother does not like it or
approve it. Life has been miserable.
He was presumed dead.
After coming back, he brought hell
with him. He needs to be sentenced to asylum. Unless of course he can retract
the stories and get his acts together.
No one believed him.
He lived with the savages. It took a toll on him. There is
no going back there to the wild.
He believed in truth.
He believed that the authors of
travelogues should under oath affirm that the descriptions and stories told are
just truth and nothing but truth.
He is now tired.
Except for the spirit and the constant flow of memories,
like the lava from the volcano of experiences.
He cannot however think
straight.
At times he is the smartest man with his assessment of human nature,
kindness and the admiration in the higher intelligence. Then at times he is
just inanimate.
He smells food, humans… nauseating sensory perceptions overwhelming
his psyche.
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Folie à deux is a
clinical syndrome with shared delusions from an inducer(Proxy) in parts or in
full.
It was initially described by the French Lasègue and Falret
in 1877. Two subjects, who live in a close relationship, in isolation, share
delusional ideas based on the same themes.
Lazarus emphasized that two preconditions must exist before
folie à deux can develop: first, an intimate emotional association between the
inducer and affected person, and second a genetic predisposition to psychosis,
such as blood relations with primary patient.
