Madness

      There was a time, not long lost, that madness was simple. The man screaming at the moon was mad. The man eating his own face was mad. The man who held views other than those held to be true by the establishment was mad.
      However, times have since changed. Madness is no longer clearly defined. As mental illness has become better understood the concept of insanity has become outdated, forgotten even. For what is madness? Is it simply believing a tale too strongly? Then is a cult a group of people who believe a tale more than they should? At what point do these people become members of a religion comprised of sane people?
      A person with schizophrenia may at points believe things which they have no cause to, while at other times they know these to be delusions. Is this person sometimes mad and sometimes sane? And who has not at some point believed something they know to be false? Is a mad person is simply someone who does not act rationally then surely all humans are mad.
      The truth of the matter is madness does not exist. As science has advanced the space left for insanity has shrank, to the point it no longer belongs in this world. As with dragons and demons, madness is now a legend of a bygone age, one we are best off leaving forever.