Most of Humanity's worst ideas have come from small, cloistered environments where bad ideas can fester, safe from any spoilsport reality checks. Sometimes literal cloisters - monks echoing each other came up with the Inquisition, for example.
But when you've been too long in your "safe space", returning to reality can be a severe shock.
Garry Stahl
2015-12-18 22:42:32 +0000 UTCPerfesser Bear
2015-12-18 16:46:36 +0000 UTC