True reason is not free of the contamination of madness, but on the contrary, it borrows some of the trails first carved out by madness. […] The vain spectacle, the frivolous sounds and the maelstrom of noise and color that make up the world is only ever the world of madness, and that must be accepted. This artificiality of the world must be welcomed, in the knowledge that that shallowness belongs not only to the spectacle but to the spectator as well.

Foucault, Michel: Madness and Civilization (1961)

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