Trying To Solve The Mystery Is What

I Think If Somebody Is So Set In Their Ways About What They Feel About Something - And You Get This A Lot In Academia, Of Course, And Also Different Sorts Of Journalism Too - You're Going To Sweep Under The Carpet The Facts That Don't Suit Your Thesis. And I Think That Happens Quite A Lot In The Courtroom, For Instance.

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.

It Is Slightly Chilling To Realize There Are Rational, Functional People Up There Employed To Spot, Nurture, And Exploit Those Down Here Among Us Who Are Irrational And Can Barely Cope. If You Want To Know How Stupid You’re Perceived To Be By The People Up There, Count The Unsolicited Junk Mail You Receive. If You Get A Lot, You’re Perceived To Be Alluringly Stupid.

My Worryingly Paradoxical Thought Process Could Be Summarized Thus: Thank God I Don't Believe In The Secret Rulers Of The World. Imagine What The Secret Rulers Of The World Might Do To Me If I Did!

I'm Not What You'd Call A Fearless Type Of Person.