When logic fails and Law of Effect saves: Reverence for daily opinion is how we take the conclusions of others as our own premises. We, the civilized, live in a funhouse: the conclusions we draw from each other often thrill or terrify us without any real basis or corresponding outcome. Nonetheless, civilization herself is subordinate to nature, fencing off only the awareness of the wild. In immediate distraction, we distance awareness from real, immediate risks. So while it is true that the examination of each up and down of daily opinion begins with unstable premises, it is also true that not using the butterflies in one’s stomach as an impulse for examination is the only way to have a great time on an unfinished rollercoaster.

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