"if you sincerely desire a _truly_ well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty". you need the balance! your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, _no matter what_. network tv, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the _telepathic pressure alone_ of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well- grounded in consensus reality."