What I really want, from this whole school business, is to get into an environment where I can talk to people about abstract concepts who really feel that there isn’t such a thing as ‘too abstract’, where concepts are a primary mechanism by which they deal with the world.

I’m tired of drying people out that way. I have tried to make the things I talk about have enough experiential referents that they can be understood contextually, but most of the things that really get me going are things that cannot be seen, at least not without special instrumentation.

We live in a modern world where most of the truths left to be teased out of it lie in subtle lands beyond the immediate phenomenal realm; to belie them for bubbling up from subliminal realms is to engage in naïve sophistry.

I’ve no truck with the school of thought that wishes to let such realms lie quiet; to want to leave such matters be, to prefer one’s intuition remain unexamined, is to canonize the timid map that declares “Here There Be Dragons”.