Exactly. And it is not just knowledge, it's not even just ways of thinking - it's ways of being. For our own sanity we have to believe we have at least some ha

Exactly. And it is not just knowledge, it's not even just ways of thinking - it's ways of being. For our own sanity we have to believe we have at least some handle on the reality unfolding around us - but even a cursory examination shows this cannot be true. Our lives are so brief, so localised, when set against the totality of all that is, was, and will be. Instead, as we shape the world, the world shapes us, and it is this emergent collective consciousness that conspires to give us all that we have.