the actions are always well justified, and everything else, the big picture, careers, reputation, family, all fade into the background.
we've all seen abundant examples of really smart people doing really stupid things.
some of them are blinded by their own successes and hold themselves to a different moral standard, using some form of justification along the lines of i-deserve-this. others simply can't beat it back and go in fully assuming they could well one day really eat shit and be throughly destroyed. yet, they appear to be powerless to stop themselves, even in the face of an impending train wreck.
and they say, if you haven't been there, you just don't know how it's like.
does everyone get their own potential train wrecks, just in different forms?
are we, whether as individuals, or a community, or a society, already are on some trains crossing some shaky bridges, and we just think we're going to be fine? until that one time it isn't?
