It is best to choose not to delve too deeply into the details of things as to do so makes the apparent reality of the world disappear like smoke. This happens as probabilities, assumptions, errors and perspectives all take on more reality than any possible fact can stand. Best to remain general, always planning, generalizing and over viewing; always at a point where a grasp of reality can seem solid, sheering away before coming too near the abyss that is all knowledge can ever amount to.

* History more missing than can ever be written down
* Medicine playing with proteins
* Relationships fantasies of emotion stretched over masks
* Economics madness disguised as productivity
* Psychology an eternal see saw between genes and environment
* Knowledge of how = power, of why = nothing

Perhaps most people instinctively live in a fog, knowing full well that to break out of it is to see nothing. The most deluded are those who think they see something and the bravest, or most insane, those who are prepared to look upon the nothingness.

Being a coward I prefer to stay in the fog, daring only occasional, increasingly rare, glimpses before darting back to the comfort of the general or common view.

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