Socrates eats your Mind
Every thought has a specific condition. It relies on a premise, a mood, an emotion, or lack of emotion - it relies on more than we comprehend and it relies on more than we apprehend. Still out thoughts can carry the heaviest weight and still they can crumble under the slightest pressure. The latter seems the most honest condition of a thought, while the former, naturally, has a much too human character to have the actual strength to hoist the Earth. One of its functions is to cloud perception and judgment to such a degree that it becomes reasonable to believe that one is truly capable of supporting the entire weight of accumulated experience with a thought. But it is out of absolute fear and aversion to crumbling thoughts that we are driven to cloak ourselves in the gaudy garments of the conceit of knowledge. Who wants to stand apart as the torchbearer of unadorned ignorance? For while in actuality such a torchbearer is really the most honest and wise amongst the rest, they are also forever held in dubious esteem for not taking part in the accepted general herd delusions. That is to say, for not taking part in the sport of the conceit of knowledge. Those that listen long enough to their fellow humans will readily see that it is very much a sport. In the costume of a "game" it retains the appearance of validity. Sound logic can be applied as a rule and the onlookers can take sides and can tell when a point has been scored for or against. What goes on being overlooked is the conceit of knowledge that uncritically accepts the validity of this or that premise. There are so many examples of this, suffice it to mention a few more obvious ones. There is the premise that all people are created equal. Any person with two eyes can refute that assumption. There is the premise that all humans have the unconditional capacity for "free will". Experience can do much to argue that assumption and there are points such as instinct and conditioning that can easily be applied to confound the arguments of those that advance the idea of "free will" unconditionally. However, in perpetuity these premises are referred to and applauded and most importantly "believed in" and most emphatically Not reasoned out with a clear, honest mind.