The Logic of Insanity

To your dismay, insanity is actually sane. The reason, I say that is due to the enormity of the statement itself. Let's take a look at what the definition of sanity is first. Sanity is the ability to be of reasonable judgment; sound mental health. Well, then now we have to denote what sound mental health looks like. One can give this definition: An absence of extremely inhibiting mental illness, comfortableness with oneself, and the power to handle daily life. As you can see, the circumstances in one's life can dictate their level of sanity. If you live or even operate within varying environments or circumstances day to day, your level of sanity may be different compared to others.

Knowing this, how can one be truly sane if the definition changes based on where one lives or operates? This extends further when you consider that not only do external pressures dictate sanity; personal philosophy does as well. With all the parameters surrounding sanity, nothing can be set as a permanent staple to establish whether one is sane.

Insanity is extreme foolishness and madness. This would deduce to the inability to preform life's necessary actions. However, if sanity cannot be contained and insanity is the inability to be sane, then the ladder must be of greater value than the former. To you, everyone may be insane due to how you live your daily life, which is entirely true. If one could live in multiple environments and change their mindset based on the situation, then by this logic they'd be insane. This is why insanity has greater logic than sanity.

If you are able to adapt, learn or acquire new mindsets, you are theoretically insane. Even if you think an event or circumstance has a logical response, it is only with limited understanding. Logic can only be used when the events you are studying are within the bounds of that logic. We all have seen things outside our understanding.

Insanity goes beyond logic and understanding, explaining the unexplainable. Insanity knows that impossibility is possible at all times. An example of this is spontaneous human combustion (when humans catch fire without apparent cause); there have been at least 111 cases of SHC around the world. I would say there are even more because of the possibility of impossibility and those that go unreported. Whether you think Spontaneous Human Combustion (SHC) is a hoax or something that is completely rational, it still stands to be a mystery.

Madness defies conventional logic; it stands to bridge a gap between a problem or occurrence and its eventual explanation. It is an unfettered potential that can be used for any purpose you see fit. In the eyes of a madman, any tool can solve a problem, and any solution can be found through unconventional means. Coca-Cola can clean your toilet, so if you don't have any toilet cleaner on hand….there is your solution. Is it madness? Yes, but it solves the problem (I am not advising you to actually do this).

What if certain people did not do something that was considered "crazy" or rash, and it ended up being the best idea in the world? You know the answer and have witnessed it in your daily life. A stroke of luck, a half-assed try that should not have worked, a last minute kiss that saves a marriage, it is all madness, but it works. Living in this energy/philosophy has its dangers as well. When madness works it's an intense moment of clarity and euphoria, when madness does not work it can be an all-encompassing destructive force. It is most useful when everything rational is unavailable.

Madness, in the end….always wins.