I'd rather not start a second hand discussion on MR. B, but I guess that's to one degree or another true of most of us Don. I guess we all play from a mostly untrue but inevitably consuming world view that seeks through mental noise to blind us to the truth of our suffering. And boy do we (or at least the ego or persona we have constructed) fear having that veil removed so that we see a truer reality.

A few of us due to the circumstances of our upbringing and our particular stage on the path seem somehow to get far enough to if not wholly transcend at least partially see past parts of this conditioning - while we may live it at times of stress, we equally have a sneaky sense in our hearts that it's not the reality.

Others are unlucky enough that they don't get this far and it becomes an all consuming obsession. I saw the movie 'There Will be Blood Last Night' - a nice little portrayal of precisely this phenomenon. It even had an evangelical preacher in there getting stuck into the loving God and fighting evil thing - no wonder the hero (a rapacious oil man into swindling poor farmers out of their land on the cheap who eventually becomes an alcoholic recluse) and this guy ended up in the same space (trying to use each other and the farmers for money) by the end of the film - they both thought that to fight was the only way to engage with the world. But neither could see past this veil, and one ended up dead because of it....