I think there's a lot of irrational fear and hatred in life, Dick. And when you soak up too much of it without facing it honestly, you become toxic. You make targets out of your fellow man, and believe great evil of your kind. You start waves of slaughter and turn a blind eye to human suffering. But deep down, behind the poison and the fear and the hatred and the pain you have swallowed up, you have a soul somewhere that knows all, and sees the truth. But the truth is unpalatable, so you need to scurry around and find explanations, hold them, close and regenerate them whenever they start to wobble. Because if you don't have it all explained, you might someday have to face the pure and plain truth of your own destructiveness. And that would drive you mad.

Well, I am glad you're holding them in place because I wouldn't want you going mad on us...but I do have to say it is a lot easier if instead of wholesale rationalizing, you face your own feelings plainly and get them squared away so you can live with yourself. If you untoxify your own heart, you will be a much freer being and you won't have to do all that heavy lifting to keep things rationalized and justified all the time.

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