With the lack of an obvious offence, it's often a case of being crushed by a thousand tiny micro-aggressions; they can be hard to prove, both to an employer and to yourself, contributing to a feeling of slow-burning madness: am I imagining this?
The grand, collective madness that is burning the world is a shape-shifting lunacy with a variety of forms that must be discerned and healed wherever it exists.
Opie's film, "The Modernist," is about an arsonist who is obsessed with L.A.'s landmark mid-century houses, and, driven to madness by their unattainability, starts methodically burning them down.
"They think that we're just crazy and we're just knuckleheads burning down our own communities, but if you ever heard of a method to the madness, here's the method.
"It was absolute madness," said Carroll, 23. "People leaving their cars on the sides of the road, everything burning.
With tales of madness and mayhem going before them, it seems reasonable to expect a QOTSA gig to include riots, nudity, burning motorcycles and at least one ritually sacrificed dwarf.
In The Good Soldier, one of the prodromes of Nancy's madness is a revelation she has in front of a fireplace in Ashburnham's estate that "the burning logs were just logs that were burning and not the comfortable symbols of an indestructible mode of life".
