If a man be demented, does he know he is-

demented?

Keeping this truth in mind, let us consider ourselves

as we are now.

What if we are demented?

Those who are not will

appear to us to be crazy-

way off the norm-

as we perceive the norm (which is crazy)

No?

Time and time again we raise heroes up and

they fall down in a profound but ugly crash.

We say: what a pity he did not make it, but,

what if

we are crazy?

And, what if, for the sane man to survive among us

is to bear a burden of lonely isolation so great nobody has

yet to make it through, sanity intact.

So much anger arises in him with no friend -nobody gets me-nobody appreciates greatness-

nobody tries-everybody is sitting on their asses-that the sane man we admired

becomes a cruel and violent monster

striking hardest at those closest to him?

Dr. Jekyll met Mr. Hide, who said-

no friend cares what his friend says or does.

Only in that freedom greatness never dreamed,

hiding was!