psychoceramics: On madness

[Mitchell Porter <qix @ desire.apana.org.au>]

While it is untrue that there is no such thing as mental illness, that
it was invented by psychiatrists to torment their patients and squeeze
money out of them, it _is_ true that normal people do far madder things
than the insane. The difference is that the madman does what he does
disinterestedly, whereas the normal person does it for fame, because
fame can be converted into cash.
				Stanislaw Lem, _One Human Minute_