In Jane Wagner's one-woman play The search for signs of Intelligent Life in the Univese, Trudy the bag lady views society from her perspective on the street. Her words underscore the interactionist position that meaning-making is a community project:
It's my belief we all, at one time or another,
secretly ask ourselves the question,
"Am I crazy?"
In my case, the answer came back: A resounding
YES!
You're thinkin': How does a person know if they're crazy or not? Well, sometimes you don't know. Sometimes you can go through life suspecting you are but never really knowing for sure. Sometime you know for sure 'cause you got so many people tellin' you you're crazy that it's your word against everyone else's.
After all, what is reality anyway? Nothin' but a collective hunch.