Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate

I Am The Thought You Are Now Thinking.

How Gullible Are You? Is Your Gullibility Located In Some "gullibility Center" In Your Brain? Could A Neurosurgeon Reach In And Perform Some Delicate Operation To Lower Your Gullibility, Otherwise Leaving You Alone? If You Believe This, You Are Pretty Gullible, And Should Perhaps Consider Such An Operation.

It Is An Inherent Property Of Intelligence That It Can Jump Out Of A Task Which It Is Performing And Survey What It Has Done.

Meaning Lies As Much In The Mind Of The Reader As In The Haiku.

Enormous Numbers Of People Are Taken In, Or At Least Beguiled And Fascinated, By What Seems To Me To Be Unbelievable Hocum, And Relatively Few Are Concerned With Or Thrilled By The Astounding-yet True-facts Of Science, As Put Forth In The Pages Of, Say, Scientific American.