“There are peculiar ways of modeling identity and relation which appear fantastical and can actually be proven to be objectively incorrect — yet these ways are superior and even ‘more like the truth’ than those objectively correct ways which the pragmatic would demand we recognize and obey.

This is known as insight. Not all fantasy is insight; much of it is delusion. Insight can be metaphied as the fruit of delusion’s forest, and is often vastly more formidable and efficacious than facts, or even accurate measurements of crucial constellations of variables.

Perhaps more confusingly, there is no way to be certain that following the facts will lead to success, or even survival. In many cases, those paths lie in directions that make no immediate objective sense whatsoever, and this is well-known by survivors of catastrophe, adventurers of every stripe, and children the world over.”

— an anonymous informant