It's like, Society, man...Vol. 24

Its been intoned, by no less an authority than "Voice of God" Don LaFontaine, that in a world gone mad, only a lunatic is truly sane.  As a society, we're receptive to that message in the context of entertainment, but in practice, how readily do we apply it to the real world?

 

 In a world gone mad, where are the girls gone wild?

The DSM-IV defines a delusion as:

"A false belief based on incorrect inference about external reality that is firmly sustained despite what almost everybody else believes and despite what constitutes incontrovertible and obvious proof or evidence to the contrary. The belief is not one ordinarily accepted by other members of the person's culture or subculture."

The DSM asserts that, if society believes it, its automatically not a delusion, even if there's "incontrovertible and obvious proof or evidence to the contrary".  Society is automatically sane, so if you call bullshit on society, you're a suspect for diagnosis as a delusional psychotic (pending evaluation of "proof or evidence", by delusional society).  It isn't a stretch to say that, according to the definitive manual of psychiatry, in a world gone mad, only the sane are truly lunatics.

Am I fucking nuts, or is that a little crazy?

Has psychiatry still learned nothing from Hollywood?