Hi Cass,
This guy actually was mentally ill, per his own description. But I never hold that against people! (Some people just happen to know their diagnoses.)

I despair of finding one person around here who understands 9/11 (the real deal) and just ONE other issue (e.g., global warming as a scam). I see so many big lies (h-hoax is another, but there are many more that you all don't share with me). I feel like Truman (on the 'Truman Show') waking to find his whole life is fictional. My hubby is the only one in the whole world who gets it, gets me, and I miss him.

By the way, I think that that Pinker fellow is a dunce. His idea of the brain being "modular" drives me nuts. He's also just so very full of himself. Don't worry, his books will rot away and no one will remember him at all. I was seething when I read his (bolded) writing, too, until I remembered the source. He's favored by the powers that be right now, that's all.

Your tea idea escapes me, but I'm sure it's a very fine metaphor indeed, if if comes from you, since you're so good with language.

E
p.s. Proselytizing among friends sounds good in theory but I have no friends. First I lost contact after I had kids, was too busy for anyone else, by the time I noticed, they were mostly gone; the rest I think I scared away after I "woke up" about 9/11 in 2006. I've moved a lot, too, and so have these (academic) friends. Now I guess I must approach mommies at ballet class ('psst, while you're sitting there, can I tell you about building 7?').

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"It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there."

--William Carlos Williams (from the poem 'From')