If you are willing to concede the problem of the mob effects writ large, then you surely understand my immense cynicism after so long an experience on a variety of topics. If you start to feel homeless intellectually, and isolated socially, it just gets worse from there. Of course I think this cynicism is very well deserved. Of course I don't want to argue these ridiculous same topics for the 500th time in a row. It starts to feel like every day is the same, and that you're in an insane asylum.

If I knew what to do about it, I'd be doing it. Pretending it isn't a problem has not been an option for me for a while now. Sometimes I think maybe, just maybe, if I talk about it, something might change or I'll reach some other understanding. So far that has not been the case.