I thought of this while listening to an NPR story about how Oregon is tearing down the mental health hospital that was used in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”. Apparently it doesn’t have a great history. Well, I was thinking a fun book idea would be if there was mental patient kept in a similar facility who had a mutation that kept his body from aging. Due to extremely poor book keeping and the fact that no one knew his real age he was kept in there for .. maybe.. 200 years before released (due to budgeting issues). This particular patient then goes out to explore the “future” but the reader never really knows what is real or what is just part of his psychosis. I am leaning towards satire vs. drama here.
After all.. we all have varying degrees of insanity.. and as virtual reality becomes more ubiquitous.. it’s only going to get worse.
