It’s that perfect moment when, at last, you are sure you understand exactly what is going on, and then, suddenly, explosively, the world effects a personal delivery of a huge parcel of ‘you are our favorite self-deluded idiot’, and you get a new set of eyes. You could take it as an insult, and retain your previous brands of stupid… and many do, but the best thing is just to laugh, try the new wings out, and repeat the process. Icarus fell from grace the first time due to hubris, the next, due to recklessness, the next, due to an engineering error… the part of the story they left out is that he is still rising and falling every day. We call it learning, and it’s the basic character of our minds, our hope of intelligence, and our history.