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Humans vs. Animals and Insane: I think this comparison is important since it is related to madness since we assume that animals and insane are at a lower rung of consciousness.

Humans – What exactly do we think about when we think of that word? I think being a human is just an opportunity; an evolved consciousness which is an essentially neutral situation; one that provides its holder tremendous faculties to go about his business; transcend to higher levels of consciousness or satisfy the primal urges of the “human” and turn back into a beast.

Attaining the state of “human” is not the end of the horizon for other supposedly lesser beings; the road goes far beyond that. There indeed are constraints that limit human existence. Humans can achieve anything and everything they want to; they just haven’t gotten there already.

People associate humans with everything good and noble about this world and everything bad with “animal-ness”. The words like savage and animal have negative connotations in most of the languages to an extent that everything bad is considered primitive and savage. This is a bit queer if not out rightly unfair and narcissistic you see.

We see “humans” indulging in most “inhuman” acts like genocides and rapes among other things. But they too are “humans”; well, at least biologically they are. What force makes them revert back to animal-ness mentally? Or is it that they were

Normality is the globally accepted set of paranoia and prejudices. It is a standard perception propagated and generally accepted by a certain group of people. I don’t know much about etymology but the word seems to have originated from the word “norm”. It translates into “prescribing to a norm”. Normality does not have anything to do with “good” or “bad”.

Insane is just differently sane; differently normal. Rules of the society have less hold over them. They do things and act the way that...