Much Madness is divinest Sense / Emily Dickinson

“Assent—and you are sane—” (Dickinson 830).  Assent to madness and you are considered sane.  What logic is this?  The speaker must be mad to thing that it is normal.  This is in fact the truth.  The many people who run about obsessively working are mad.  They are missing the best part of life.  This is thought how the world works.  If someone does not go along with this order then they are seen as outcast or slackers.  If they go about comely threw the madness they are seen as snobbish. They could also be seen as having a secret and trying to rule the madness.