Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.