It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time to time and behave in certain fixed ways that even a baboon could master, like Englishmen dressing for dinner in the tropics.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Sanity is a shared agreement to act in predictable, civilized ways, even if they seem arbitrary.
- In plain terms
- Being sane means agreeing to follow common social rules to interact peacefully.
- What can you take from it?
- Sanity relies on shared social agreements to function.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What makes sanity work?
- Are social rules arbitrary?
Another view
Arbitrary rules can sometimes feel restrictive or unfair.
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