moodboard: "Videodrome". Directed and written by David Cronenberg (1983). Sequence of a talk show interview, with the character Dr O'blivion. Quote: J.G Ballard (d2009)

 

“In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom. Our latent psychopathy is the last nature reserve, a place of refuge for the endangered mind. ...microdoses of madness, like the minute traces of strychnine in a nerve tonic..a voluntary and elective psychopathy...the drill sergeant's boot and punishment run give back to young men a taste for pain that generations of socialized behavior have bred out of them.”  J.G.  Ballard