[William of Barsoom]

So. From this I conclude, you can’t “beat’ the Madness (or Great Delusion?), you CAN hope to keep a low profile, and elude it, and survive. Madness seems to always consume itself and be destroyed eventually.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

That’s how I’m reading this piece.

IMHO, keeping below the fray is always a wise alternative, in good times and in bad. ;)