From Humanoid Faults to Manipulated Consensus, 8
Basically, truth is our confront goes out. And you can observe how this is going to get us in trouble when you consider it from the point of view of what’s been said quite to the contrary: that the way out is more confronting, and the way to the bottom is less confronting, always and with no exceptions.
At which point it is important to clarify what confront is exactly, due to a key misunderstanding here that may let the whole thing go awry. The comparison between a normal car and a sportscar comes handy to explain it. Lower ride, stiffer suspensions, wider tires and more direct, sensitive and precise controls allow the sportscar to run faster before losing control; as a result on the same track at the same speed the normal car has to either slow down or crash, while the sportscar can handle it and even find art, pleasure and fun in it. What is the sportscar receiving from the track, the speed, the environment, corner after corner, moment by moment? Stresses: a number of sudden, strong, varied, partly unpredictable, stresses. And how is it responding, corner after corner, moment by moment, exactly? Not by anger, excitement, aggressiveness. Nor by apathy, overwhelm, surrender. But by keeping its poise, clear thinking, steadiness. In other words, the sportscar gets through because it has higher limits of cause before being pushed into effect, and it achieves this by its greater self−control.
This is the key misunderstood: again, confronting does not merely mean impulsively attacking anyhow; confronting means maintaining a perfect self−control so as to observe, decide and act – or don’t act – for the best, whatever the observation, decision, action or non−action needed. Confront is not only the courage of facing the situation and doing something about it; it is that plus staying cause, overcoming any attempt to make us effect, in order to observe the situation as it actually is, and to decide and act as actually required, as being effect means getting unwittingly biased away from the solution.
