I'm Not What You'd Call

As I Glanced At The Phraseology Of The Research Report, Dull And Unfathomable To Outsiders Like Me, I Thought That If You Have The Ambition To Become A Villain, The First Thing You Should Do Is Learn To Be Impenetrable. Don’t Act Like Blofeld—monocled And Ostentatious. We Journalists Love Writing About Eccentrics. We Hate Writing About Impenetrable, Boring People. It Makes Us Look Bad: The Duller The Interviewee, The Duller The Prose. If You Want To Get Away With Wielding True, Malevolent Power, Be Boring.

We Have To Understand How The Extremists Got The Way They Are. Without That Kind Of Understanding, We'd Never Really Get To Know Them. I Put In Nothing About Their Childhoods. But What I Have Put In Is Stuff About The Weird Symbiotic Relationship Between Us And Them.

I Wondered If Sometimes The Difference Between A Psychopath In Broadmoor And A Psychopath On Wall Street Was The Luck Of Being Born Into A Stable, Rich Family.

My Worryingly Paradoxical Thought Process Could Be Summarized Thus: Thank God I Don't Believe In The Secret Rulers Of The World. Imagine What The Secret Rulers Of The World Might Do To Me If I Did!

Suddenly, Madness Was Everywhere, And I Was Determined To Learn About The Impact It Had On The Way Society Evolves. I've Always Believed Society To Be A Fundamentally Rational Thing, But What If It Isn't? What If It Is Built On Insanity?