Consensus

Crazy, like and truth and beauty, is totally subjective.

For example, not many crazy people accept that they are crazy, But you would have to be crazy to admit you were crazy.

The medical profession is so crazy that it doesn’t even accept that crazy exists. They have sliced and diced it up into a thousand sub-categories of crazy.

Most people would admit that everyone is a little crazy from time to time, and that for some people it’s a little more of the time than for others.

However to earn the full time monicker the periods of uncrazy generally have to retreat entirely to bed-time.

And yet someone who is only partially crazy can be shunned by others simply because it can be hard to deal with crazy.

This is because crazies act unexpectedly and this requires people to re-configure their brain in order to deal with them.

Preconfigured brains are the norm because this leads to processing efficiencies which in turn enable us to do more and more complex stuff, which is required for us to get more than our fair share of life’s goodies.

And it is in the shunning of the crazies where the objectivity creeps into the definition of crazy.

All we need is GoPro’s or Google goggles on everyones head, some cloud connectivity, some bloody brilliant algorithms to monitor the shunning behaviour, some real-time reporting (say green/orange/red alerts in the goggles) and our lives could be crazy free.