More thoughts on the masks we wear

While watching American Psycho (still watching it atm) I came across this post and it seems kind of inline with what I posted the other day, except it's a bit more severe, both in its observations and conclusions. This whole thought process seems to have effected his life very severely.

While reading the comments, I came across a few good ones.

jlovett makes a similar observation to Einstein (quoted a week back) that everyone is a genius in their own way and the OP shouldn't see them as just stupid creatures.

Indrid seems to be headed down a similar thought path that I feel like taking.

I also came across one this reply by Gregg:

Think of intelligence as being an anemone; a beautiful clear deep-sea creature with tentacles everywhere. When that anemone is disturbed, it will pull in its tentacles into itself and it will look like a totally different creature. For awhile. Then it will slowly put out a couple of tentacles here and maybe some over there until it feels there is no threat and then it will unfold in all its beauty.
What makes that anemone so wondrous? Did it do anything to make the beauty that is the anemone?
I would say the anemone is a gift to the environment and the beauty that it has been given is by the admiration of the environment.
You can be just a particle floating by in he ocean of life, in the grief, pain, and the sorrow; but watch the anemone.

It seems to stand out the most. It seems to describe how this creature exists in its hostile environment in its own way. It doesn't pretend to be a shark and go around biting things, or change colors to make it look like it's poisonous; instead it retracts itself from the hostile environment and feels its way back in. idk - this whole "the masks we wear" psychology thing is hopefully going to come to a point eventually.

The guy from American Psycho seems to be able to wear his mask flawlessly. I wonder if the more you try to conform, the crazier you get, or have to be. :P

As Charlie Sheen would probably put it, "those guys [wearing masks] are a bunch of fools and trolls". Even though everyone sees him as going crazy, sometimes I think he may be one of the sane ones...