>Doug replied:
>> Or, in the words of a dead theocratic reactionary: "Humankind cannot
>> bear very much reality."
>>
>
>I am not talking about preferring illusions to reality.
Nor am I. But "reality" is full of messiness and contradictions. We all have our systematic blind spots that help us make sense of reality, but some of us are more likely to filter out contradictions and textures than others.
Doug