To
explain his being locked up for 5 years in an Asylum in Bethlem of
London in the 17th century, Nathaniel lee, an English dramatist, summed
up what had happened to him with a phrase, which would have been great
when condensed a title for an article, a book or a film. "They called me
a madman. I called all of them madmen. By Jove, I won by majority.".
Everyday madness is established somewhere, by strength or majority, trying to impose itself as common sense, while the dissent or disagreement is deemed as matters of the madman. Or madness itself. Until the madness crumbles away then the dissenter appears sane, and the disagreement healthy as bread. We could use the Nathaniel Lee's method to interpret the history or read the press each day. A board of military psychopaths who had conquered their own country, Myanmar, Burma, purposely prolonged the detention of the Nobel Suu Kyi to impede the public electing him again. A skinny woman, a madwoman, recommended not investing in suffering to win benediction. Each time she spoke, in her soft and steady voice, it put in evidence the great madness of the predictors. It's pure madness to create Guantanamo, the shackle that have left Bush at the feet of Obama. There were brave madmen, the International Amnesia, that right from the start denounced the madness. So there were those who diagnosed the actual crisis before the disastrous collapse of banks and the ensuing recession. In Spain as in some other countries, the 'progress' is such that bricks are piled up into the sky impeding people to see the forest, the sea, and the shame. It's the shared global madness. Madness is the new legislation of the approved law in Italy, to transfer illegal immigrants from civil to criminal courts. Madness is that of the Pope's objection and theory to condemn the use of condoms. The problem is in the Vatican where there are no madmen, although they are the majority. It's a mad, mad world. Salute to Mr. Nathaniel Lee for helping me to adapt to it without dying in the process. |
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