How many automotons does it take to exclude a mad person?

There's no punchline. It's one of the saddest things I know.

It's an expression of the pain of mental illness. The isolation which comes from automotons' lack of understanding and compassion. It takes every automoton a mad person meets or has met to create the isolation which is so common for people with severe mental illness and redoubled by a system which seeks to outcast them into the benefits system hidden from mainstream society by the prison of poverty.

The automotons greatest trick was to make the mentally ill desire this. They fight not to work but they foster the exclusion of their kind from mainstream society. They continue the "great confinement" where the mad disappeared into the asylum system. Now they disappear into the benefits system.

Great talents are wasted. Whole lives are lost to the life lived outside the mainstream of society. A life trapped in the prison of poverty and the mad are persuaded that this is what they want.

How many automotons does it take? It takes one person to reach out and make contact, real contact as equals, to stop the continued exclusion. It also takes changing every single automoton.