We're All Controlled Neurotics.

We're All Controlled Neurotics.

The Thing Is Helicopters Are Different From Airplanes An Airplane By It's Nature Wants To Fly, And If Not Interfered With Too Strongly By Unusual Events Or Incompetent Piloting, It Will Fly

Journalism Is A Kind Of Profession, Or Craft, Or Racket, For People Who Never Wanted To Grow Up And Go Out Into The Real World.

If You're A Good Journalist, What You Do Is Live A Lot Of Things Vicariously, And Report Them For Other People Who Want To Live Vicariously.

This Is Why Being A Helicopter Pilot Is So Different From Being An Airplane Pilot, And Why In Generality, Airplane Pilots Are Open, Clear-eyed, Buoyant Extroverts, And Helicopter Pilots Are Brooding Introspective Anticipators Of Trouble. They Know If Something Bad Has Not Happened It Is About To.