It’s not about being afraid of things. We can choose not to think about something or do it. The trick is to realize that it’s ok to choose to be crazy.
For example, if you tell yourself you have a million dollars, but then go ahead and spend it all on something you don’t really need, that’s ok because you’re still choosing to be crazy. You’re still doing it because you want to. You are choosing to do what happens to you. I think this is an important lesson in our society. We need to realize that we can be crazy and still be ok to do whatever it is we’re trying to do.
There’s even a name for this type of insanity – the insanity power. It is the ability to do something that really is insane in your own mind. For example, if you go to a bar and see that someone is already there, so you go in, you are already doing something crazy. You are choosing to do that. We call it “going to a bar and seeing someone already there” and “going to a bar and seeing someone already there and doing something insane.
In the case of our protagonist’s insanity, he is choosing to do something crazy (he is going to Blackreef Island) so that he can kill the Visionaries. He is doing something insane (going to a bar and seeing someone already there) but it is just a natural consequence of doing something insane.
The point here is that in our study of the behavior of people who are doing “crazy” things as a natural consequence of doing something else, we discovered that most people are doing something crazy but when they realize they are doing it, they don’t freak out and say, “No! That’s not me.” The most common response is to tell themselves it’s not them.
The insanity power, or insane-in-action-as-a-consequence, is the ability of a person to do something that was previously considered crazy. A lot of people have this ability, but few people have the nerve to use it. One reason that most people seem to do crazy things while they are doing something normal, is that they have the power to cause themselves to do crazy things.
I’ve been told that I am not the only one with this ability. There have been a few occasions where I have used it to do things that I never thought I would have the nerve to do. This includes, but is not limited to, making my body break into pieces, cutting my arms off, and even cutting off my own legs. The ability has also been used to create weapons that will destroy someone’s body, which is pretty cool.
All that said, the ability is still very much a work in progress. There are a few things people can do with the insanity power that still have to be perfected before they will be useful, so I highly recommend you check out some of the videos I linked in the previous paragraph.
There are several ways you can use the insanity power, which is why I encourage you to watch the first video in the link above before watching the second video, or even watch the first video in the link above before watching the second video.
I’m also pretty sure the insanity power has a few potential uses that aren’t as immediately obvious, like increasing your body’s endurance. The most obvious one is for running. The insanity power is applied so that when you walk, you will run faster than normal. The same is true of jumping and swimming, and you can even use it as a boost to your climbing speed.
