Absolutely. this is their jugular. And Jerome was brilliant. i could not agree more. Perfect metaphor.

You can convince people in the fence adn very close to the fence. Internal coherence (lack of it) is the achilles heel. I hope people on the reality-based community use it.

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude