Comfort shows are trauma coping mechanisms. But he won't acknowledge that he's riddled with fear of the world around him and his trajectory in it, he "just likes westerns"

Actually, I can kinda see why that might be the case. Westerns are often set in tiny towns with like 50 people. That's a comfortable number of people to coexist with and Amy problem is easy to understand and solve. But he lives in a sprawling boundless community of thousands or millions, infested with threads of arcane and existential problems that he barely understands, let alone has any control over