The Madness is Back… And It’s Revved Up! 🔧💥
Spark. Spark. Crash.
In 2005, the British author and psychologist Dr. Tim Leighton published a slim, provocative volume titled The Need for Madness . His thesis was simple yet unsettling: human beings have evolved to require periodic, controlled releases of irrationality—what he called “functional madness”—to maintain long-term psychological balance. Without it, he argued, societies calcify, creativity withers, and individuals collapse under the weight of relentless reason. need for madness 2 revised and recharged