Mania, according to the American Psychological Association, is a “state of excitement” causing “overoptimism, grandiosity, or impaired judgment.” Plato located its source in both “human infirmity” and “divine madness,” in which the individual, drawing inspiration from the gods, achieves “release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.” Pete Wentz, bassist of the pop-punk band Fall Out Boy, told Rolling Stone in August 2017 that titling the group’s latest effort “Mania” represented “a big palette cleanse” and a “space to create something brand new.”
Holland was the most powerful and wealthy maritime power in Europe in the 1500s and 1600s, known as the Dutch Golden Age, and tulipmania was a 3-year craze!