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Individual sanity is the madness of the masses
4 December 2009
There is a legend among the Persian Sufis. Once upon a time, a wise man said that the day will come when all the water in the World except what has been specially collected would disappear. Then different water will replace it. Anyone who drank the new water would lose his mind.
Only one man took the prophecy seriously and begin to store up water. But the day that had been predicted came. Every body of water emptied out. The man who had listened to the wise man drank water from his supply. The bodies of water and wells filled up with water again. People thirstily drank this water and everyone of them went crazy. The man who listened to the wise man continued to drink water only from his own supply and kept his sanity.
He was the only sane person left among the mad men and therefore he was called crazy. He poured out his reserves of the old water on to the ground. He drank the new water and lost his mind. The mad men decided that he had become sane.
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