How many Wall St workers are mentally ill?
How many Silicon Valley tech heads are mentally ill?
How many government bureaucrats are mentally ill?
How many psychologists are mentally ill?
Welcome to reality.

I for one don't recommend spending too much time on this or other political/economic/financial/conspiracy websites than is healthy. As with all things. Bitcoin, arising from the internet mainly, consists more so of internet-dwellers who are used to sharing and posting and linking on forums to their heart's desires. Other people in other spheres probably read books, study, talk with their friends, and maybe get drunk and move on with things. But internet-dwellers I think have difficulty functioning outside of the basement very well.

MUST WE TRUST A PAYMENT SYSTEM INHABITED AND OPERATED LARGELY BY THESE BASEMENT DWELLERS??!!

Would-be video game developers, network admins, tech support people. If these are the people largely participating with Bitcoin then the project will surely have problems. Financial education, policy education, sales, risk management, legal assessment ability. I can think of many competencies that this set of people would lack that would be required to operate a successful payments network. So I hope that Bitcoin is contributed to by more than just these types. I also hope that the bitcointalk forum is a poor representation of the participants involved.