Humans React To Danger When It Is

The Price We Pay For Our Irresponsible Explanatory Urge Is That We Often Spoil Our Most Pleasant Experiences By Making Good Sense Of Them.

Why Isn’t It Fun To Watch A Videotape Of Last Night’s Football Game Even When We Don’t Know Who Won? Because The Fact That The Game Has Already Been Played Precludes The Possibility That Our Cheering Will Somehow Penetrate The Television, Travel Through The Cable System, Find Its Way To The Stadium, And Influence The Trajectory Of The Ball As It Hurtles Toward The Goalposts!

Hateful, Blasphemous, Prejudiced, Vulgar, Rude, Or Ignorant Remarks Are The Music Of A Free Society, And The Relentless Patter Of Idiots Is How We Know We're In One. When All The Words In Our Public Conversation Are Fair, Good, And True, It's Time To Make A Run For The Fence.

The Fact That We Often Judge The Pleasure Of An Experience By Its Ending Can Cause Us To Make Some Curious Choices.

Our Inability To Recall How We Really Felt Is Why Our Wealth Of Experiences Turns Out To Be Poverty Of Riches.