Jay Walker on the world's English mania Let's talk about manias. Let's start with Beatle mania: hysterical teenagers, crying, screaming, pandemonium. Sports mania: deafening crowds, all for one idea - get the ball in the net. Okay, religious mania: there's rapture, there's weeping, there's vision. Mania can be good. Mania can be alarming. Or manias can't be deadly. Ther world ..