Madness is completely circumstantial; that is to say it is a term tied to no static definition, as society is always changing.

The disease is no longer a novelty to people, and sometimes owners take it upon themselves to diagnose their horse with West Nile and put him down before ever confirming it, ... It may be a true decline, but the numbers may not be as true as we are seeing.

Society cannot be insane, only the individual can. Because sanity is a label dictated by society's ruling class.

An insane individual is generally incapable of noticing their own altered state of mind. Therefore they will insist on their own sanity, sometimes even going as far as accusing society itself of being plagued by madness.

Uncertainty is the mother of dependence

One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.