I'm Not What You'd Call A Fearless

Ever Since I Learnt About Confirmation Bias I've Started Seeing It Everywhere.

Sometimes The Personalities At The Helm Of The Madness Industry Are, With Their Drives And Obsessions, As Mad In Their Own Way As Those They Study. And That Relatively Ordinary People Are, More And More, Defined By Their Maddest Edges.

There Is No Evidence That We've Been Placed On This Planet To Be Especially Happy Or Especially Normal. And In Fact Our Unhappiness And Our Strangeness, Our Anxieties And Compulsions, Those Least Fashionable Aspects Of Our Personalities, Are Quite Often What Lead Us To Do Rather Interesting Things.

The Way I Portrayed The People Is Accurate. Because They're Human Beings And We Have A Kind Of Wonderful Capacity To Be Absurd And Ridiculous.

We Have To Understand How The Extremists Got The Way They Are. Without That Kind Of Understanding, We'd Never Really Get To Know Them. I Put In Nothing About Their Childhoods. But What I Have Put In Is Stuff About The Weird Symbiotic Relationship Between Us And Them.