You begin to think about the normal well-tempered mind, in effect, the well-organized mind, as an achievement, not as the base state
As an aside,
Almost no one ever really analyzes sanity. Somehow, despite not understanding why exactly we exist, what our purpose is, and that at any given moment we could die and cease to exist, we don't go insane. Do you have any idea how crazy that is? Even "insane" people are just experiencing delusions ontop of reality - the constructs from their mind are mundane in a sense because while they aren't real, they are sane. Real insanity would be realizing how large the universe is, that philosophers cant even prove anything besides solipsism exists, or how meaningless life is. I've come to the conclusion that I must be insane, since sane people don't notice any of this - clearly all the completely sane people don't give it a second thought.
And of course I'm sure plenty of you will say sure life has purpose, or solipsism is too narrow because it isn't useful to use as a worldview. Because you're all sane. ;)
As an aside,
Almost no one ever really analyzes sanity. Somehow, despite not understanding why exactly we exist, what our purpose is, and that at any given moment we could die and cease to exist, we don't go insane. Do you have any idea how crazy that is? Even "insane" people are just experiencing delusions ontop of reality - the constructs from their mind are mundane in a sense because while they aren't real, they are sane. Real insanity would be realizing how large the universe is, that philosophers cant even prove anything besides solipsism exists, or how meaningless life is. I've come to the conclusion that I must be insane, since sane people don't notice any of this - clearly all the completely sane people don't give it a second thought.
And of course I'm sure plenty of you will say sure life has purpose, or solipsism is too narrow because it isn't useful to use as a worldview. Because you're all sane. ;)