Just learned about this:
"Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available."
That seems to track.
BTW, this is from sci-fi writer Gregory Benford, not to be confused with Benford's Law, which is a mathematical law and also interesting for different reasons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Benford#Benford's_law_of_controversy
>"Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available."
Certainly applies to religion, hhh.
And diet and exercise and predictions about AI and stocks and and and...