Insanity, your Honor!

Insanity is subjective.


There once was a king who was loved and respected by all the people he ruled for his fair and just principles. They adorned him with food, jewelry, and clothing. He ruled from within the gates of his own kingdom and had a private river from which he drank. His subjects drank from their own river. One day, the water that his subjects drank from became contamined and, after drinking it, they all went insane. The king, from his throne, had no idea. The people began to loath the King and they called him a tyrant and thought that he and his principles were insane. They stopped sending him gifts and began to rebel against his authority.
One day, the King decided to wander into the village where his people were. The walk down made him thirsty, so he dedcided to drink from one of their contaminated rivers. After drinking, he, too, became insane. He now saw things from the eyes of his people, and they accepted him again.

The insane rejected the sane until he became insane.

i think I did a good job of recounting this story. It's from The Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman and it proves that people are only insane out of context.