But being insane means doing things no one in their right mind would do. For example, throwing away your iPhone 12. — Cidat
That would be a very sane decision. I'm not saying that to be contrary, but it depends totally on how you view the phone. I once saw an English member of parliament smashing his wristwatch. I could totally understand him. His motivation was Tora-based, and that is not my cup of tea, but nevertheless I could relate to the guy.
You merely state what is normal or not. In some realities it is normal, in other ones not. If iPhones replace virtually all forms of direct human contact, at the same time directing people by algorithms and submitting them to the greedy needs of global corporations, showing little respect for Nature or the people they address, under the phoney (how appropriate!) cover of the image of personal freedom and material richdom, so inescapable omnipresent in tech-and science-based society (excuses for criticizing the so beloved science in modern society, but it's just one view of reality amongst many, with an unaccounted claim to power, with a devastating effect on Nature, including people once existing in colorful cultures and having a wide variety of views about which western man can only dream), then I can understand people who wanna throw their phone away, freeing themselves from the global imperative.
I had a moment of feeling depressed when I walked with the dog. The boundaries of a pond in which she always swims, were dag away, to create more space for the water or whatever. Killing a variety of life around the pond. Broken plants, reet, were left at the borders, waiting to be collected by a garbage truck. "Big deal", you might think. But it's a good metaphor for the society we live in. I think modern society gives rise to many mental sicknesses It is thought that depression will be the number 1 sickness soon. From child age we are put in unnatural surroundings, are thought things at school in an abstract nature-detached way, leaving the education to teachers instead to the parents themselves. To make a living later in the same unnatural, programmed, Nature-detached, legoland-like, linear, almost surreal, law-directed, science-based (ooh, I curse in the church of science, which probably gets me banned here!), inflation-directed, growth-mad, (high)tech-structured, intruding, all-pervasive, nature-destructive, materialistic, reality,.
As a result, the use of drugs increases, to escape the system. The last means possible
to escape. As a result, people suffer from psychoses. I had one; I felt free, but in hindsight I was indeed mentally no good: I thought the world was 100 years later and tried to drink water from exhaust pipes, thinking only clean water came out, because all cars were hydrogen-driven. I thought the Earth was pure again. I was isolated physically, the usual approach, and given medicin, all without me wanting! And maybe the best, but they took my sense of liberty away. Labels were sought to put on me. I indeed had a psychosis. And maybe luckily I was picked up from a nightspot by the police. I could have ran under a car (which can be considered a just as mad invention as the iPhone, if you wish). It is always "to protect yourself and others, we put you in a cage". Yeah, my ass.
Now, mental illness can be seen in every culture, within the confines of every worldview or reality. You can be born with an tendency for madness (and science is oh so busy trying to find out if it's Nature or nurture, without really trying to understand the people who are suffering). Of course. But aren't we all? Aren't we all the same in that tendency?
Can you give some examples of megalomanic thoughts? I have them too once in a while, merely as a reaction of that sometimes nagging feeling of impowerlessness. A feeling more present than ever before. Do you feel depressed? My depressions are gone, I hope, because I thought that before and then the beast roared its ugly head again. Many times after a time of feeling free and wonderful. Talking with every one, no matter what anyone thought. To be labeled manic. One day the feeling bad subsides! Let's hope it subsides for you! It can't be otherwise! You are a freedom loving spirit, and your brain will surely give you that divine gift of true freedom! Which is not some abstractly defined one. We can talk more about freedom if you like. I surely don't wanna impose my truth or reality upon you!