8 times out of 10, human persons and groups have absolutely no idea what is going on. And that is when they begin to tell you what is going on. Because not having any idea is so terrifying that almost any fiction will seem to be so perfect and true that one simply has to embrace, serve, defend, or even die for it, from then on.

The fact is this: what people say and what is going on are catastrophically dissimilar. What one can say doesn’t even -show up as a blip- in what is going on. It doesn’t even qualify as -noise-! The idea that anyone can say what is going on is like saying that when you blink your eyes these letters you are now reading will become your family. It’s just too wrong to even go there. Ever.

You cannot say what is going on.

What is going on is something you want to be intimate with, directly, and saying what is going on is a way of directly avoiding that intimacy. Once you start to notice this, there is a natural confusion: what have you been thinking was going on all this time?

Now that we have recognized that everything we are saying about what is going on is largely trivial in comparison to that which it purports to describe to us… what is actually going on?