IT geek - project manager. A bit eccentric. Atheist but a little bit pagan in that the unverse is magnificent and awe-inspiring. The Milky Way in a dark Australian sky is just too good for words.

Colecting antiquarian books. Speciality is Arabian Nights aka A Thousand and One Nights.""
Volunteer firefighting.
Photography.

Mass psychology and the "Madness of Crowds" as in "Global Warming" for a very current example.

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep
repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be
maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the
political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes
vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for
the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is
the greatest enemy of the State.”

- Josef Goebbels on the Anthropogenic Global Warming hypothesis - if only he knew.