Genius and madness...

Sloterdijk is originally Dutch, though he was actually born over in Karlsruhe, Germany. I guess some people view the Dutch as a nation that isn't really into philosophy—just mostly focused on drinking, partying, and messing around, if you catch my drift.
The best description of a philosopher and their actual ideas I've ever come across was this one on his own website: !
His sentences feel sort of... swollen? Like he’s speaking as a single entity, both mind and body at once. He uses these incredibly precise metaphors, almost surgical in how they hit the nail right on the head.

Genius is really just another word for abnormality. If someone can actually get a grip on that weirdness, they’ve got a gift—but if they can't? Then we're talking illness, maybe even full-blown madness. Of course, it's not as simple as controlled genius versus insanity; sometimes there's just a clinical disorder at play. You can often help those early cases find some semblance of control—and when you do, the results are incredible. But the others... unfortunately, they can NEVER be cured... In the most extreme cases, you just have to shut them down before they hurt themselves or anyone else

I’m convinced I’m both absolutely wild and a total genius—there's no doubt about it.