Insanity vs Society: Who Defines The Norms?

From what I gather madness is perceived as not fitting the structural norm. So if a person perceived to be mad is surrounded by like minded people don't they become the norm in their collective? Which brings me to ask who decides what is the norm and acceptable and what makes one crazy?

For the most part we are all born into the construct we find ourselves with no choice on the present and we live accordingly and most people don't question things but a minority few always do and are often seen as crazy. I don't usually like to speak on religion but hey it's a perfect example.

Back in the Jesus of Nazareth day, according to religious text, a Jewish immigrant with Buddhist tendencies went around claiming he was the offspring of the supreme creator, a flesh embodiment of the ultimate spiritual super power and that he had direct access to Them. He had a dozen guys following him hyping him up as he went on a road trip (which included hydroplaning with his bare feet) to spread his unorthodox sentiments.

The people at the time would've thought he was as crazy as can be, in fact about 14 million Jews still think this today as well as atheists and non believers. Muslims thought he was onto something but still maybe a little bit crazy. The Gentiles/pagans who happened to be majority rulers of the area also found him mad. In my lifetime several people have tried to do as this man Jesus did with similar claims and those that haven't been medicated have been deemed by society as crazy.

So with all intents and purposes, someone who the majority population found to be a madman or an anti establishment trickster is being followed and worshiped today by over 2.07 billion Christians and his teachings are also being headed by over 1.25 billion Muslims worldwide.

What am I getting at? Are these current day Christians and Muslims not mad by association? I'm positive if he were to reappear today, and who is to say he hasn't a few times already, majority of the collective of the 3.32 billion people who believe in his existence for the most part would deem him a madman because he still wouldn't fit the structural norms that are currently in place which funny enough are fairly similar to thousands of years ago.

Mental illness is a condition which causes serious disorder to a person’s behaviour or thinking. We define the order so doesn’t it make it subjective?

Bottom line is, what equates to craziness, who sets those parameters, and why is altered behavior and thought from the collective treated threateningly and as a disease.

Maybe it's the collective who are stifled beings forever clinging to this structure preventing their evolution because every impactful world changing human being for better or worse (e.g. Einstein) when assessed with our mental health parameters falls under the mentally ill category. So are we hampering evolution by constraining those perceived to be crazy?

I sometimes imagine scenarios like the little water creature that started to grow usable limbs and alternate breathing mechanisms trying to get to the land and permanently relocate; see the world. The other fish see this and think, what? No he's crazy! And He's trying to kill himself! These fish think "This is how life was for for parents and grandparents and that's how it is for us." So when this evolving creature tries to get to the shore instead of succeeding and continuing the theorized process of evolution forever changing the world, his fish buddies pull him back into the water and lock him up in coral reef jail for his own safety and well being. They do this cause they care about him and want him to live in the parameters of their understanding, never knowing that his outrageous notions were indeed right, achievable and would have been the norm for his descendants who would've found it ridiculous to think of living in the water merely three to four generations in.

What if we the norm were the crazy and something happened which caused us to take over civilization? Our minimal brain capacity at some point in time could’ve been a disability and now those with more active brains find themselves in environments they can’t properly harness it and to top it off are labeled crazy and medicated, shunned or institutionalize. Would it matter at all since those like you are the majority?

What would you do if you found out you were the weaker or less developed of your fellow humans even though you were part of the majority? Would you create a better environment for the minority to better evolve and advance or would you stifle them to maintain your known order? Is it crazy for me to even think this way? Please leave a comment, I’d love to hear your thoughts on this.