A statement similar to the above title is often attributed to Albert Einstein and also to Basic Text of Narcotics Anonymous. No matter the source, the point is significant.
This point was also raised in an interesting comment by political economist Michael Munger:
"My friends generally dislike politicians,
find democracy messy and distasteful, and object to the brutality and
coercive excesses of foreign wars, the war on drugs, and the spying of
the NSA.
But their solution is, without
exception, to expand the power of "the State." That seems literally
insane to me—a non sequitur of such monstrous proportions that I had
trouble taking it seriously.
Then I
realized that they want a kind of unicorn, a State that has the
properties, motivations, knowledge, and abilities that they can imagine
for it."
http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/unicorn-governance 
Do we ever act insane? If so, what to do when we discover this?
