Depression? Choose the "Münchhausen" method! It will definitely pull you out of the quagmire of your own thoughts – with the help of the feedback loop!
Baron Münchhausen (not to be confused with Hans Albers) pulls himself out of the swamp of dragging emotions, events and thoughts by his own hair.
A scene that must appear physically impossible to any rational mind!
And yet it remains one of the most fitting images for the mental capabilities of man who begins to understand the principle of the feedback loop.
For what else do we do when we want to free ourselves from the mildew of despondency, from the private and public mudslinging? We try to lift ourselves out of the mire of adversity with our own consciousness. Of course, it's not that simple – but the Baron apparently sensed how it might work.
Admittedly, the idea is sound, but there's room for improvement in the execution. Nevertheless, it's important to remember: he's not a charlatan, but an unrecognized pioneer who has mastered the art of spirituality. self-reference He grasped it intuitively – long before cybernetics, psychology, or the hopeless attempt at self-optimization based on the “little self” existed. Peter Sloterdijk, incidentally, has dealt extensively with this topic, inverting and redefining the term “anthropotechnics.”
