What is it about human perception that allows “yes” and “no” to be considered as valid responses to situations? Affirmation and negation are both illusions. In fact, they are both primary causes of illusion, since acceptance and rejection of conditions leads to disfigurement and distortion. By framing conditions in terms of a decision to appropriate them or not into thinking and behavior, something vital is stripped from them.

Mass literacy seems to be diluted literacy. When the definition of literacy devolves to meaning the mere ability to read and write words using the alphabet, much is lost. Might it not be preferable for fewer people to write well and read intelligently than for more to do so poorly and crudely?