thousands of years ago people went inside themselves to explore the whys and understand the hows why don't we do more of that now? why is the first answer we reach for usually external to ourselves - 'kings are arseholes let's govern ourselves fuck 'em' 'we need more government more rules, that will solve everything that's wrong with the world' 'fix the money fix the world' etc etc etc on and on and on every generation making tiny iterations learning a tiny bit more what doesn't work does our being have an eternal and timeless aspect? if so can we know it intimately? what does that even mean?!!