There is no way to say how an ordinary man would be better off.
Why thinketh ye that thar be a popular phrase, “Died before his time,” and not one in which the word “died” is replaced by its opposite?
When humans don’t have anything to talk about, they’ll sometimes make up something. (Just ‘tween us, make that all of the time.)
The ceaseless, non-essential, apparently pointless thoughts forever passing through men’s brains help support the impression that man is the instigator, or at least, active participant in his destiny! Why else would he be engaged in this totally useless activity, did he not do so willfully and intentionally? It can’t be natural! It must be some self-initiated foolishness. This could be why the mind has no innate interest in self-examination. It might reveal the truth about this matter. Yikes!
And the day’s final fact:
Someone asked the person who writes this Daily News page, “Man oh man, where do you get all that stuff?” And before anyone could stop them, the news jumped in and said, “Aw, he just makes it all up!” And lo, there was much moaning and loaning and ga-nashing of teeth, and the people were sorely affixed and cried out. “Verily, verily we say unto us, ‘Holy hell! Who threw the well in the well!’” Suddenly – super suddenly, a great peace fell upon the land. (Just ahead of the land doing so, everything eventually landed on itself anyway.) And the moral – the moral, my friend – don’t get me started. Just see to it that someday you too can be accused of just: Making it all up!
J.