I get the feeling with some people strongly that they are playing roles. They are actors, trying to react the way the character they want to play would act. They are not interacting with reality, but through their imagined sense of how they would react if they felt everything appropriate to their character, which self evidently they don’t, to the precise extent I am right about this.
We are starved of authentic, deep emotion in this country. I don’t know why, although of course I have reams of related commentary. I am simply going to leave this here for now.