In Short, If We Adhere

If Someone Offered You A Pill That Would Make You Permanently Happy, You Would Be Well Advised To Run Fast And Run Far. Emotion Is A Compass That Tells Us What To Do, And A Compass That Perpetually Stuck On North Is Worthless.

To Ensure That Our Views Are Credible, Our Brain Accepts What Our Eye Sees. To Ensure That Our Views Are Positive, Our Eye Looks For What Our Brain Wants. The Conspiracy Between These Two Servants Allows Us To Live At The Fulcrum Of Stark Reality And Comforting Illusion.

I Have Everything That I Could Possibly Want In Life, From A Gorgeous Granddaughter And A Wonderful Wife, Brilliant Students, The Best Job Anyone Could Hope For, And About Half Of My Hair. Not The Half I Would Have Kept, But No One Consulted Me.

Global Warming Is A Deadly Threat Precisely Because It Fails To Trip The Brain's Alarm, Leaving Us Soundly Asleep In A Burning Bed.

Why Isn’t It Fun To Watch A Videotape Of Last Night’s Football Game Even When We Don’t Know Who Won? Because The Fact That The Game Has Already Been Played Precludes The Possibility That Our Cheering Will Somehow Penetrate The Television, Travel Through The Cable System, Find Its Way To The Stadium, And Influence The Trajectory Of The Ball As It Hurtles Toward The Goalposts!