“When you vote with your action for something that makes you less potentially intelligent, you are moving actively against -the entire field- of everything else that might.

The cost of this grievous calamity is rarely understood, because we only account for what we received (and perhaps its polar opposite that we did not), rather than all that was inhibited or denied by the costs of the choice, the efforts, and the results.

A an example, when we choose war instead of mutual development, we get all the costs and curses of war, -and- we lose not only access to all of the specific things we might have done or become instead… but the whole -pool- of them is traded for the single catastrophic choice.

And thus it is that we must learn to make selections that, in general, do not anchor us to singular ‘points’ of ignorance in preference to freeing us to explore constellations amongst the starry fields of general prodigy.”

— an a i