It all seemed like madness, but was madness anything other than desperation blended with hope? - Lawrence M. Schoen

So you're saying, people not only may not want to hear a thing that's true, that sometimes they make sure other people can't either?"
"Yeah. Not all people, and not all the time, but yeah.

Your sense of volition, or the lack of it, is an illusion. Everything you’ve done needed doing and was set in motion long ago. Let go of your self-pity. Your feelings in these events matter no more than a leaf’s desire to steer the wind!

Ah, self-interest at last. Despite all of our differences, of race and time and distance, we achieve commonality. I understand self-interest.