GROWING up, we concluded that every human indiscretion and failure was due to something wrong that a man did. Based on what was negatively done to that individual’s innocence in the formative years had then influenced the overwhelming bad habits repeatedly common of some souls.
We condoned a religious concept of Original Sin, which is how we interpret the idea, taking other options into consideration. For instance, the reality that, individually, if we are born healthy, we do have the faculty of choice between good and evil. But is there a link between ‘Free Choice’ and the idea of Original Sin? Commonsense would dicate that they do, as Original Sin lingers as a preemptive impulse that can be weighted positively or negatively.

Like the allegory of ‘Adam and Eve’, if negative, we can blame our errors on our circumstances, versus the temptation to benefit from decisions we should not have made. Therefore, none of us are without sin. We all have regretted actions, openly or inwardly, because we have never received all the information for perfection; some we learn from our errors and impulses afterwards, sometimes from an inborn ‘force field’ called the ‘Conscience’.

We think mainly in the context of religion or mysticism first. When it comes to defining strange and unnatural behaviour, our references to profound folklore proverbs have been local guides to help us along the way. Still, we are not protecting that cultural gift for reference? ‘Blow fire wid yuh mouth, ashes fall in yuh eye’; ‘commonsense born before book’; ‘crack callabash don’ mend’. These and more have helped to shape awareness on the practical level of relating to one’s own diverse neighbourly surroundings and life choices that impact on us for generations.

Scolding, gossip, and adult conversations have been transmitted through proverbs. As children, we used them effectively, especially ‘do suh, nah like suh’, and the eternal ‘monkey know wuh limb fuh jump pon’, because proverbs have multiple case interpretations, and work to activate the imagination and practical observation. Hence, with commonsense intact, the realms of literature books became easier to embrace, understand and interpret; the puzzles of social comparisons and antics are easier to solve. Because, for example, “Fool must realise that how ‘e see ‘eself in ‘e mind, ah nah de same ‘e in mirror pon wardrobe.”

There is a new narrative of this age that is necessary to become aware of that must be recognised for a better understanding of the era we live in. We thought that social circumstances alone developed human behaviour. Well, not exactly. From the medical sciences of experiment and observation.
There is another phenomenon that we must come to understand: The reality of mental diversity; the grim and crippling reality of the mentally disorderly, once referred to as ‘Children of the Moon’, or Lunar-tics. But there are much more, and this is a severe deadly phenomenon. Some humans are born different, and can evolve as dangerous to all around them and to others, as dangerous as their influence reach.

I entered this Science stream by investigating the career world of a character I developed. He’s a mystic and a clinical psychiatrist. So I had to know what my character does. Critics can be fierce and even spiteful, so I bought an interesting book that hinted that I buy a medical dictionary of the field. I was uncomfortable spending this hard-earned cash, which was needed in my local home environment, but I, however, never regretted doing so.

I realised then that we live in a world of birthed, developed and unspecified anti-social minds. For example, the speculations of experts define ‘the psychopath’ as someone who lacks empathy, but can fake normal emotions so convincingly that they often come across as personable; even charming. This appearance of normalcy, the so-called mask of sanity, in factual definition, they don’t care, because they can’t. They are born with their brains malfunctioned. See- ‘Scientific American Mind’-Sep-Oct-2010. They build special prisons for psychopaths.

But even worse is ‘the sociopath’. This is a brief downloaded from Health Essential News, and collaborated with my ancient ‘1990 MAYO CLINIC family Health Book’. It’s still the same: “Chances are that at some point in your life, you’ve encountered someone who doesn’t seem to take any consideration for your feelings, or understand social norms. They lack an understanding of right and wrong, no matter who gets hurt.” We describe people with similar traits as, “Duh’s a cruel banna’, a weirdo, or sicko.” We attribute it to deprived upbringings, spiritual things deh family believe in, or as cruel, meaning to ‘keep away’. The truth is that medically anti-social persons are legion.

With the pervasion of narcotics in our nation, and dangerous over-the-counter drugs sold illegally, we have got to seriously up the awareness, because some of the horror stories occurring imply that what evils not birthed, drugs and the social collapse of inspirational core values have cultivated; worse, into legions of anti-social behaviour acceptance.