This "over-connectedness" is also extremely common for brilliant people in finance. When you're surrounded by people playing dirty and things not being as they

This "over-connectedness" is also extremely common for brilliant people in finance. When you're surrounded by people playing dirty and things not being as they seem you develop a level of paranoia as a survival/coping mechanism. Michael Burry, Ray Dalio, Eric Weinstein and the like are not usually paranoid or conspiratorial or contrarian, they're just more outspoken than most.