division offense/defense=illusion?

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...people such as you seem to lack the ability to abstract away from their conditioned concepts. In this case the concepts offense and defense.

The willingness to preserve sanity is too strong.

Could you give some examples?

Creative madmen.

Madness is not a prerequisite for creativity

and the vast majority of the mentally ill are not geniuses.

I just now saw this, but I understand exactly what you are saying here.
It's about memetics, a subject that I study.
It's ideas, which are algorithms, which can be represented by mathematical equations.
An equation (idea) becomes dominant by being recursive in nature, and thus spreading itself in endless iterations at every level of scale. Fractal.

What we have is energy flowing through systems, but always must flow in both directions, - equal and opposite.
Thus a perpetual software/mathematical war.

It is extremely hard for a human to see and understand a situation like this because of being embedded within the structure.

Goethe was able to come to similar conclusions and directly compared the energy exchanges during chemical reactions to the macro scale of human exchanges.

I just now saw this, but I understand exactly what you are saying here.
It's about memetics, a subject that I study.
It's ideas, which are algorithms, which can be represented by mathematical equations.
An equation (idea) becomes dominant by being recursive in nature, and thus spreading itself in endless iterations at every level of scale. Fractal.

What we have is energy flowing through systems, but always must flow in both directions, - equal and opposite.
Thus a perpetual software/mathematical war.

It is extremely hard for a human to see and understand a situation like this because of being embedded within the structure.

Goethe was able to come to similar conclusions and directly compared the energy exchanges during chemical reactions to the macro scale of human exchanges.

It could more often than not, but not always, be the opposite of madness, as in the words of Don McLean:

Now I think I know what you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will

What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.

There's a fine line between 'wrong' and 'visionary.' Unfortunately, you have to be a visionary to see it.

In a world that is extremely interconnected, which is the consequence of advanced technology, the line between offense and defense becomes very blurred, perhaps even meaningless. I can illustrate it with something from biology, which I'm not an expert in either. A cell living in water has a cell membrane, and the membrane is full of little tubes, pumps, connecting the outside of the cell with the inside. The pumps in the cell membrane have to counter the effect of osmosis to prevent the cell membrane and the cell at large from being damaged.



You can see the solvent particles as opposing forces in war. If the pressure is constantly rising inside the cell the solvent particle concentration is increasing, there is a net influx of solvent particles from the outside into the cell, because the cell can't pump out particles as efficiently as they are being pushed in. The cell will explode.

If I'm not mistaken there is movement of particles through the membrane even when the pressure is equal on the inside and the outside, due to diffusion.

So it works similar to a reversible chemical reaction.

Now I would like to use the cell and the movement of particles through the cell membrane as an analogy for Nazism. Considering that the division between offense and defense is blurred to the point of virtual meaninglessness, any entity with power over another has to use all kinds of subversion tactics to remain in power. This might include twisting the minds of the subjugated population in various ways, shaping their ideas and world view etc. You influence the content of children's books and movies, what books are on the shelves of the public library, what magazines are on the shelves of the corner store etc. And if the people are unable to see through the deception due to lacking intelligence, they'll follow it until they begin to suffer from it, and that suffering will make them see through the deception. It can even be argued that until someone has the ability to see the truth of something, they will reject it and oppose it by their own force no matter how much you present it to them. And at one point you might not have any choice but to let them do what they decide to do based on their own desire, even though you know that they will suffer. You can only give them a message so many times before you have to hide if they keep spitting you in the face and stomping on your papers, following their own desire regardless of what you say. So you make them believe that they themselves are in control and that they're doing the right thing. If a child wants to touch the stove and keeps screaming constantly and nothing you say or do makes them change their mind, you might let them touch the stove once to learn.