The Insanity Of Society
Madness is something rare in individuals, but in groups, parties, peoples, ages it is the rule. (Nietzsche, 1886)
The general idea of this quote is quite simple. We happen to find ourselves in a society where, if every member of said society were to be examined and tested, we would find him or her to be relatively sane, rational and good in nature. However, if we put all of these people in a group, and examine how this gathering would function collectively, we would find such erratic behaviour and insanity among this group that we would, very likely, be frightened by these results.
To quote Jeffrey Kluger from TIME magazine: “If the entire human species were a single individual, that person would long ago have been declared mad. The insanity would not lie in the anger and darkness of the human mind—though it can be a black and raging place indeed. And it certainly wouldn't lie in the transcendent goodness of that mind—one so sublime; we fold it into a larger "soul."......
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