Most people who believe they are strong, independent thinkers have never actually thought about anything in their lives. They swallow all the bien pensant opinions and ideas and regurgitate them like a 9-month-old spitting up her applesauce.

When you move past living like that it becomes startlingly obvious but also weirdly entrancing. There is a danger, though. If you don’t have a really good mind, it’s easy to tip over into conspiracizing and all that entails: anti-vaxx, aliens, etc. But fortunately I do have a quality mind and so that’s not a problem. And I’m also very humble too, obviously.