When people move from one extreme set of views to embrace another equally batty picture of the world, they expect us to applaud their choice, as if the fact that they have rejected one form of nuttiness somehow validates the screwball views they hold now.

当人们从一种极端的观点转向另一种同样古怪的世界观时，他们希望我们为他们的选择鼓掌，就好像他们拒绝了一种形式的疯狂的事实，在某种程度上证实了他们现在持有的古怪观点。