Lee Diamond – Contaminated Water
A story is told of a town in Eastern Europe in which all the water became contaminated. Anyone who drank of the water would “go crazy.” There was however just enough pure water for one person to survive this plague.
The town council met to determine the future of the town and its population.
A decision was made to appoint one person who could drink the pure water while the rest of the townspeople would drink the contaminated water.
This one person was given the pure water on the condition that for the rest of his life, he would remind all that they had drunk of the contaminated water and that they were insane.
And so it was, until he died.
And there was no one to remind the townspeople any longer.
So they were sane.