It is convention of Psychiatrists and--and Historians as well--to claim that when certain forms of behavior occur with great frequency in society—however bizarre, weird or destructive—these forms of behavior are "normal" because they occur frequently.

I view recurring episodes of warfare, genocide and terrorism--mass-murder--rather as manifestations of collective psychopathology.

Perhaps “madness” is a central characteristic of the domain of politics. 200,000,000+ million deaths in the 20th century as a result of warfare and genocide (see Rudolph Rommel).