Deep brain structures retained throughout evolution for their survival benefits take in all internal and external sensory input and process/distort, store, and respond to these sensations at 10 times the speed of conscious thought. This is done through chemical signals that are, tautologically, drugs of abuse. Wackiness ensues.

The worst consequence of this, is "The Bowie Effect". This is the ineluctable reaction to seeing those "on the edge of the night". We respond those in need, or those who are sick, or those who are being chased by lions or law enforcement by "turning away like a blind man" and responding by "Sat on a fence but it don't work". The conflict between natural empathy and the Bowie response, of course, puts us Under Pressure.

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