Paracusia. The Insomnia of Reason.
Auditory hallucination
An auditory hallucination, or paracusia, is a form of hallucination that involves perceiving sounds without auditory stimulus. While experiencing an auditory hallucination, the affected person hears a sound or sounds that did not come from the natural environment.
From Wikipedia
When you hear the voices of your reason, they are always convincing. Extra stimuli like popularity or exposure, that modern social media can give you, may put them into overdrive. The trouble is when you start hearing voices that do not belong to “the natural environment”.
The unwritten rule of modern media: you need to take other people seriously, those who approach you, but not yourself. X user ektrit did not like my comments recently and blocked me. My comments were not very kind, perhaps, but nothing offensive, nothing mean (we always know when it’s mean). I’m explaining this—I’m sorry—just to avoid sounding like I’m falling into an ad hominem fallacy. It seems to me that he takes himself more seriously than any rational man should. His account recently hit 10k, and he probably decided to post like there’s no tomorrow to celebrate that milestone. Like someone made a witty remark (essentially a rephrase): “the insomnia of reason produces monsters.” Get some sleep, folks.
I will keep this post here (it is May 2025), and you will see eventually who wants what. Who’s losing the war, etc. Some people are clearly fond of conspiracy theories and reading Mr. Putin’s mind.
On top of that, he’s also a remote psychiatrist, as one friend of mine noted.
There’s really no excuse for the publishing of this nonsense. In the end, sanity isn’t the issue (everyone’s a bit weird in their own way), credibility is. And you cannot insist on credibility, because if you do, you may want to introduce a cult on X, often prematurely as in this case.
And don’t get me wrong, I like the guy. Not everyone is able to say something like this, which I wholeheartedly support:
If you hear the strong voices of reason, don’t let them be distorted by your insomnia or anything ideological. Otherwise, there is a risk of falling into a modern type of pseudo-rational commentary masquerading as sober insight. Because then your voice may become my paracusia as a reader.
I would not be concerned, and would otherwise take all that lightly and not write about it unless, of course, I’m guilty myself of every point I’ve made. And yet, I’m watching and smiling. To rephrase Daniil Kharms: “Intelligent people, but they don't know how to take themselves in hand.”
