'I mean some people climb Mount Everest, are they less nuts? People die on Mount Everest - they get frostbite, they come out with no hands, no toes, dead, they get crushed by avalanches. Other people get shot to the moon and blown up in a space shuttle. For what? To float in weightlessness and look back on earth?
So I took things that made you do that without going anywhere. Yes, people died, but was it any more insane than the pursuits which are put on pedestals by ordinary human beings?
'You can look at it as adventuring. Maybe someone is on a path where they're seeking a certain knowledge, and in order to get it they have to go the way of great danger with the possibility of grievous damage to themselves. But that's where the hidden secret is you know? I'm not saying that people don't get lost, but if you have a compass that's hidden from view, and everyone else is going the other direction, and you're going this way, who's to say that they're not a lemming and that your other way is not the way of sanity? That everyone else is falling off the cliff at the end of the world, but they don't know it. It's about a certain sense of ... maybe the flock of birds is flying in the wrong direction.
It's a real razor's edge. You and I have emerged both terribly and virtually unscathed. That's as deep a paradox of human experience. It was a religious experience to have gone through that.'
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