"Doubt and faith are friends. The enemy of faith is fear.
The doubt I speak of is that of an honest, open mind; not that of one closed by prejudice." -BH
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The honesty part is a big catch: we don't "get" honesty much. Too difficult, and too threatening...
We pretend to be too "sociable" now to be -that- kind of social, to permit our multi-faceted, vulnerable reality to dance with this seemingly-expedient illusion. Unless a crisis comes up: then honesty is a comfort again, so we take shelter there... until the storm passes. Then its easy to put our bullsh*t on parade, and disdain vulnerability yet again.
Of course, the quote above is right, but assuming the joke at the cost of our contact with reality is just so much more fun (read: less risky)!
...Or is it?
