The three laws of sanity:
The world is mad.
Your own theories and grand ideas about the world are also mad, except where this contradicts the first law. (In which case you are merely slightly more sane than average).
The world is sufficiently mad that your being sane is actually a disadvantage, except where this contradicts the first two laws.
The world is sufficiently mad that your being sane is actually a disadvantage, except where this contradicts the first two laws.
Or as I would put it, "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is institutionalized."
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