What is collective insanity and how does it work even in developed democracies Last Friday, a London court sentenced a man named Carl Beach to 18 years in prison for lying, manipulating justice and fraud. In October 2014, Carl Beach, then known to the general public under the pseudonym Nick, a fifty-year-old overweight man, told British police sergeant James Townley that he had been terribly raped as a child. Every week, frostbitten pedophiles would pick him up from school and rape him.