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The Measure Of (mental) Health Is Flexibility (not Comparison To Some 'norm'), The Freedom To Learn From Experience ... To Be Influenced By Reasonable Arguments ... And The Appeal To The Emotions ... And Especially The Freedom To Cease When Sated. The Essence Of Illness Is The Freezing Of Behavior Into Unalterable And Insatiable Patterns.

But It Is A Delightful Challenge To Try To Depict Interesting Aliens.

Alas, Criticism Has Always Been What Human Beings, Especially Leaders, Most Hate To Hear.

It's How Creativity Works. Especially In Humans. For Every Good Idea, Ten Thousand Idiotic Ones Must First Be Posed, Sifted, Tried Out, And Discarded. A Mind That's Afraid To Toy With The Ridiculous Will Never Come Up With The Brilliantly Original.

Prison For The Crime Of Puberty -- That Was How Secondary School Had Seemed.