Humanity Is Insane: Difference between revisions

== Comics ==

* ''[[The Killing Joke]]'':

** Several of the Joker's more notorious schemes are attempts to prove this is true to everybody else -- and maybe to himself. Otherwise, he'd have to face the possibility that maybe the world ''isn't'' crazy... that maybe it's just him.

 

* ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'': This could be why human thought is viewed as an infectious disease by some aliens. No wonder they don't want us to get our hands on a [[Universal Translator]].

* In the direct-to-DVD sequel, ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]: Hero of the Federation'', the Arachnids (or Bugs) use this as a justification for attacking and taking over humanity.

* In ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'', when telling Jake he will be taught the ways of the Na'vi, Mo'at says, "We will see if your insanity can be cured."

 

** Explanation: {{spoiler|the Sun is about to go nova so humans '''ALL''' got on rocket ships to find a new sun, knowing how crazy that would be. Aliens find us mid-journey. They might regret that.}}

* [[Stephen King]] is fond of this trope, as the quote shows. [[Cell]] discusses it - Clay theorizes the phone didn't drive the humans insane - it simply wiped everything out, and the psychos everywhere are simply base humans doing human things. Like stabbing everything. Another character puts it simply:

* In the ''[[Animorphs]]'' companion book ''Visser'', Edriss comes to this conclusion after infesting her first human. Several other books suggest that when the Yeerks jumped at the thought of a Class Five species (lots of useful bodies that didn't have the tech level to fight back), they had ''no'' idea what they were [[Humans Are Warriors|getting]] [[The Eternal Churchill|into]].

** In ''The Visser Chronicles'', Visser One was shocked when she first entered a human mind, because it had the ability to doubt itself, seeing this as insanity at best. She stated that living with our own traitor in our heads was something completely alien to her, and was why we went to war with other members of our species, even committed suicide - another unfathomable concept.

* The ''[[Bioshock]]'' franchise is stock full of these. No matter how good the intentions of its creator, Andrew Ryan, the city of Rapture delved into unethical human experimentation and chaos not long afterward (part of it caused by Ryan abusing his power). Later, Sophia Lamb and her cult following came along, hoping to eradicate the ego or self that is responsible for human evil... by forcibly experimenting on her own daughter in hopes of creating the ultimate altruistic being, deprived of free will. And in the upcoming Bioshock Infinite, where the setting takes place in a fantastic city floating in the sky constructed by the U.S. government as an icon of hope to American ideals, everything goes to shit when the city loses contact and disappears for a decade. Ironically, probably the only sane people you ever encounter is the {{spoiler|forcibly brainwashed}} protagonists.

* [[Mass Effect|The Reapers]] believe that anyone that knows of their existence and power but still opposes them to be completely outside the bounds of logic. Paragon Shepard tells Harbinger to [[Shut UP, Hannibal|shut it]] in the Arrival DLC for ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''.

'''Harbinger''': Inconceivable. }}

 

== Web Comics ==

* Humanity is described in ''[[Buck Godot]]''

** Aliens can get rather crazy too, especially [http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20080322 when the Winslow is involved].

* On ''[[Mezzacotta]]'':

* [[Xkcd]]: [http://xkcd.com/556/ This one]. Be sure to read the [[Alt Text]].