Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.
I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time.
It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

