It’s never just one person going mad. It’s systems. Crowds. Governments. Cultures.
Mass delusion becomes law. Mass hysteria becomes morality. And suddenly, what would be unthinkable from an individual—violence, cruelty, punishment for pain—becomes normalized when done by the group.
One person criminalizing miscarriage would be labeled unstable.
But when a state does it? It’s “policy.”
When a crowd cheers it on? It’s “popular will.”
When a nation builds it into law? It’s “civilization.”
This is why we must stay awake—because the real madness is what passes for order.
"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule”
Friedrich Nietzsche
It’s never just one person going mad. It’s systems. Crowds. Governments. Cultures.
Mass delusion becomes law. Mass hysteria becomes morality. And suddenly, what would be unthinkable from an individual—violence, cruelty, punishment for pain—becomes normalized when done by the group.
One person criminalizing miscarriage would be labeled unstable.
But when a state does it? It’s “policy.”
When a crowd cheers it on? It’s “popular will.”
When a nation builds it into law? It’s “civilization.”
This is why we must stay awake—because the real madness is what passes for order.
Yep yep!