Thank you, Richard.
Yes, I would agree with that - "emotional safety" is another way to put it.
The paranoid/ideologue can relax a great deal, since they now have the security of knowing exactly what is going on in the world - no more ego-threatening confusion, but the emotional safety at having finally arrived at an understanding of what is happening.
But all attempts at such emotional security through ideal formulae merely produce more mayhem and madness in the world.
The only antidote, I believe, is the discovery of what Alan Watts calls "the wisdom of insecurity", which is life-supporting and life-enhancing.
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