History Main / HumanityIsInsane

-> -- '''StephenKing''', ''Danse Macabre''

->''"Learn well, Jakesully, then we will see if your insanity can be cured."''
-> -- '''Mo'at''', ''[[{{Film/Avatar}} Avatar]]''

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* From ''DeathNote'': This is pretty much the conclusion of [[{{Shinigami}} Ryuk's]] ''[[AllThereInTheManual Human Observation Journal]]'' (which he finds highly amusing.)
* In Macross Frontier, [[spoiler:this was in fact the ''entire cause of the show's central conflict''. The Vajra, being BeePeople, didn't quite get humanity's whole 'individuality' thing, and assumed our lack of clear, unifying purpose and direction to be the result of a catastrophic breakdown of our HiveMind. Being nice, altruistic types, they decided to rescue the human HiveQueen, Ranka, [[BugWar and the rest was history]]. To their credit, though, they eventually realised their mistake, and even went as far as to sacrifice millions of their own to prevent the Frontier fleet from being obliterated by the BigBad before offering them a place to stay on their homeworld]].

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** 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.

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* This could be why human thought is viewed as an infectious disease by some aliens in the ''MenInBlack'' universe. No wonder they don't want us to get our hands on a UniversalTranslator.

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* In ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' Spock often feels this way about humans.
** Particularly emphasized in the Leonard Nimoy song "Highly Illogical".
* The other aliens in ''{{Farscape}}'' only have Crichton as their example, so they try to imagine a whole world full of Crichtons. He usually comes off as bizarre and insane to them due to his incessant pop culture references that nobody but he understands.
** Given the sort of MindRaping and...more that Crichton goes through over the years, he truly does genuinely become a little insane (inasmuch as it is possible to be a 'little' insane), so their assuming this of humanity as a whole likely goes up.

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* There are [[HumansAreBastards several]] [[HumansAreWarriors ways]] [[HumansAreCthulhu to interpret]] ''The Damned'' by Allan Dean Foster, but in terms of tropes on this site this might be the best way to describe its portrayal of humanity. Humans evolved on a planet that shouldn't have been able to support life, in a way that shouldn't have produced a sentient species, and while as individuals we're usually decent, we display disturbing tendencies in our speech patterns and our art that are magnified when we're in large groups. We're also immune to MindReading, with [[TooSpicyForYogSogoth spectacular results]] any time it's tried.
* This is the conclusion drawn by [[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Wonko The Sane]] in ''So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish'', who decides the world has gone mad after seeing detailed instructions [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous on a package of]] ''[[TooIncompetentToOperateABlanket toothpicks]]''. He then creates the Asylum, which contains the entire world except for his house, which he ''turns inside-out'' and declares "Outside the Asylum".

* CodexAlera's Kitai (who's a Marat- basically a ProudWarriorRace of neolithic wood elves, for reference) makes no secret that she thinks humans are insane. Of course, her companion and ultimately lover [[TheHero Tavi]] is human, so at least some human craziness is [[CrazyAwesome the kind she can get behind]].

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* 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 forcibly brainwashed protagonists.

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* Humanity is described in ''BuckGodot''

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* In GalaxyRangers, humans are considered either [[HumansAreSpecial uniquely wonderful fuel]] for the [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen's]] [[PoweredByAForsakenChild Psychocrypt]], or utterly insane. The Series 5 Rangers do virtually nothing to counteract the reputation, aside from adding CrazyAwesome to the list.

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** Too Bad the VAST body of evidenve OVERWHELMINGLY supports The Joker here...

** 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, a concept hinted at being alien to her.

** Lieutenant Jack Gordon Shepherd (who's brain has been taken over by a Control Bug): "Poor creatures. Why must we destroy you? I'll tell you why. Order is the tide of creation. But yours is a species that worships...the one over the many. You glorify your intelligence...Because it allows you to believe ANYTHING. That you have a destiny. That you have a right. That you have a cause. That you are special. That you are great. But in truth, you are BORN INSANE. And such MISERY...cannot be allowed...to spread!"

-> -- '''Mo'at''', ''{{Film/Avatar Avatar}}''

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

* This is the conclusion drawn by [[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Wonko The Sane]], who decides the world has gone mad after seeing detailed instructions [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous on a package of]] ''[[TooIncompetentToOperateABlanket toothpicks]]''. He then creates the Asylum, which contains the entire world except for his house.

* 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 forcibly brainwashed protagonists.

* 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 forcibly brainwashed protagonists.

* This is the conclusion drawn by [[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Wonko The Sane]], who decides the world has gone mad after seeing detailed instructions [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous on a package of]] ''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous toothpicks]]''. He then creates the Asylum, which contains the entire world except for his house.

* This is the conclusion drawn by [[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Wonko The Sane]], who decides the world has gone mad after seeing detailed instructions [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous on a package of ''toothpicks''.]] He then creates the Asylum, which contains the entire world except for his house.

* This is the conclusion drawn by [[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Wonko The Sane]], who decides the world has gone mad after seeing detailed instructions on a package of ''toothpicks''. He then creates the Asylum, which contains the entire world except for his house.

->''Any dolt with half a brain''
->''Can see that humankind has gone insane.''
-> -- '''Billy''', from ''[=~Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog~=]''

** Particularly emphasized in the Leonard Nimoy song "Highly Illogical".

* In ''TheDarkness'' {{FPS}} it's stated at one point that the Darkness, ([[EldritchAbomination cosmic horror, demonic force of chaos and destruction]]) wasn't originally [[AlwaysChaoticEvil evil and crazy]] but that Humanity drove it insane. ([[UnreliableNarrator However, this is learned in the Darkness's own realm,]] so odds of MindScrew are high).

May be [[CrazyAwesome the reason]] HumansAreSpecial, or [[AxeCrazy the reason]] HumansAreBastards, or [[NoIntelligentLifeHere the reason]] HumansAreMorons.

-->''Any dolt with half a brain''
-->''Can see that humankind has gone insane.''
---> -- '''Billy''', from ''[=~Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog~=]''

-->''"I think we're all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better (and maybe not that much better after all)."''
---> -- '''StephenKing''', ''Danse Macabre''

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* From ''DeathNote'': This is pretty much the conclusion of [[{{Shinigami}} Ryuk's]] ''[[AllThereInTheManual Human Observation Journal]]'' (which he finds highly amusing.)