The old man of the world

What is insanity? How do we know that a person is insane? If a person thinks that he is the only sane person, while the rest of the world around them is crazy, does that count as insanity? Parania? If one believes that the whole world is out to get them, for whatever reason, can we call that person unstable? unbalanced?

Ok, so what about cultures and socities? Can they suffer from those conditions as well? Can a culture or a society be considered as a living person? Why not i say, that would surely explain a lot.

Arab socities, if that above metioned definitions are correct, are totally crazy, insane, unstable, paranoid, whatever the word you'd prefer can be used here.

Why? Well, they seem to think that the whole world is out to get them, everyone, from the smallest to the largest nations. are conspiring against them, to keep them down, to prevent "the great Arabs" from ever rising up and "taking their rightful place" in the world. Interesting, i wonder what professional pshyciatry would think of this.

A man, old, wrinkled, angry, bitter, mentally rigid. He had some "good days" in the past when he did have some respect among other men but now all of this is gone. No one pays his any attention because he going senile, he only speaks nonsense. Those around him really don't get the stuff he's talking about. He sits there talking to himself, cursing everyone else for being different, for ignoring him, but cannot comprehend the idea that it might be him that is at fault, not that's can't be, everyone's just gone crazy.

"I am great," the old man says, "in my youth i did this and that, everyone feared me, they respected me. I think i'll just sit here and think about the good old days, but first i must shut everyone up, because their talking, their culture, their ideas, their mere appearence really disturbes me, i can't think about my glory if i have to listen to that garbage."

This is the Arab world, this is the medieval mentality that is like a black spot on the face of the world.

Whenever anyone says anything to the old man, he quicly shuts them up, by violence if necessary.

Now we woudn't want to disturb that old man now would we.