[AmericanEmpire]

Otherwise they wouldn't be building a new Quiktrip filling station in the area where I live.

[Golgo13]

GOD, I hate that rationalization.

It's like "There's no way! If that were true, then they wouldn't be turning all this country backroad area by my house into gridlock suburban sprawl! Who would invest in such a living arrangement if it had no future?

This type of prototypical denial was best illustrated by Sam Neil playing the character "John" in the movie 'In the Mouth of Madness".

Cane: "Do you want to know the problem with places like this? With religion in general? lt's never known how to convey the anatomy of horror.

Religion seeks discipline through fear... yet doesn't understand the true nature of creation.

No one's ever believed it enough to make it real.

The same cannot be said of my world."

John: "Your books aren't real."

Cane: "But they've sold over a billion copies. l've been translated into eighteen languages. More people believe in my work than believe in the Bible!

John: "You got a point?"

Cane: "l think you know it."

John: "There has to be some kind of an explanation... for what l've seen tonight.

l'll sort this shit out later, but right now... there has to be some kind of a simple fucking explanation!

Cane: "Always lookingfor the con.

Even now you're trying to rationalize."