The Stag Effect: A Social Psychology of Fear and Incapacity

"There are so many highly intelligent people including an academia who actually deliberately seem intent upon avoiding a situation where we might ask those big questions," he says. "You get very angry if anybody tries to do anything that even indirectly touches on this fear and incapacity that you sense in yourself" He adds: "We see a society that's in denial of its of its real condition and someone in denial becomes angry and contemptuous"