 As if struck by a blow , one suddenly recognizes the scientific futility , the biological senselessness , and the social noxiousness of views and institutions , which until that moment had seemed altogether natural and self @-@ evident . It is a kind of eschatological experience so frequently encountered in a pathological form in schizophrenics . I might even voice the belief that the schizophrenic form of psychic illness is regularly accompanied by illuminating insight into the irrationalism of social and political mores . 
