I'm starting to see how delusions that make us insane (usually related to Western religion and political cynicism in folks like me) can offer considerable protection from delusions that make us normal (too numerous to list, but for instance: these highly intelligent animals with feathers, specially adapted to long-distance flight and locating ephemeral food sources, are for unknown reasons powerfully confined by surface geography (ornithological conception of most birds); "privacy" in technological communication; faith in Prussian-American education as related to reality; or treating most Western scientific fields as if they primarily are involved in something other than promoting (or fixating on) the individual religious notions of Aristotle ("species"), and Christian scholars like Linnaeus ("God creates, Linnaeus organizes"), Occam (taken logically--"simplicity argues for monotheism because most implicit assumptions of humans are usually correct"), Darwin ("selection" as a verb should be ALSO defined as the opposite of that word's former definition), Mendel (...oh actually that involves reality!), Aquinas (white supremacy or something even more bizarre), etc.