Madness is Awareness: Introduction
Madness. it’s a concept completely mistaken for carelessness. So very loud, obnoxious, obvious, easy to spot.
Despite common misconception, Madness isn’t actually that chaotic. It’s much quieter. Patterns being seen before announcing themselves, the room feeling heavier to one when every other being surrounding them seems to be carrying on without so much as a wince. Understanding something so deeply without language to make it useful.
The fear of madness isn’t because it’s seen as irrational but quite the opposite, madness is feared because it sees too clearly.
Awareness interrupts comfort. It’s an inconvenience to the complicit. It cannot lie and say everything is fine just because the earth still turns. It doesn’t have the privilege to.
“Sanity”. Sanity is actively choosing not to look close enough. Complicity. They go hand in hand. Moving through life without wonder or without wanting to question as to why the silence weighs so much more than sound, why truths arrive with a one way ticket invite without intention to ever leave.
And mad? Well that’s what you’re called when you decide not to look away.
Igor is not a character. Igor isn’t a warning. Igor is the voice of over thinking, observation, dissection. Igor is the “it’s all in your head” voice. THAT voice inside you that stays awake taking note of when the story stops making sense, when something is missing, or when the pieces fit a little too perfectly. Igor is perception beyond surface level.
This is far from a self-help space. This isn’t a place to come if you’re longing to be fixed. This is a place where we dig and dig, behind the scenes, between the lines. This is a place to be honest. Do not expect comfort.
Awareness only sharpens, it is not meant to soothe. This is
