The Study of Story Telling

i've been a writer for just over 20 years now, professionally. I started working on a book called the heretics about ten years ago. It was an investigation of why smart people end up believing crazy things. The brain isn't there to decide what's true - it is there to tell a story. And in te heretics, you know, the brain as a hero maker, that's what it wants to do. i find genius and stupidity are usually sort of a roommates sould,. if i can put it this way. They live under the same roof quite often. There'sa fine line which is easily crossed, and usually is crossed by people like that. In many