We like stories.

The biggest problem we have is thinking straight.

We cling onto an idea that makes it easy to get along with others and the world. It is by it's nature simple and stereotyped.

If you are on the left or right of the political spectrum, adhere to a dogma, believe that the only way to stop climate change is to sit on a highway, become a racist, believe in abstinence or a hedonist...

These are modes of thinking. It has a desired outcome that you would like to see and the way to get there is thinking and doing things in a certain way.

In the end, though, knowing what you really want and what really is out there is far more complicated than a few ideas.

We don't really have the capacity to understand very big things.

Telescopes aren't big enough, logic stops at a given point no matter what you believe in.

We have reached a state where our egos feel threatened and we resort to simple thinking to feel happy again. Others think the same and we feel okay again.

But under the surface of our conformity and feeling ok in an idea that rocks you like a mother rocks her baby, there is a sense of unease we are too afraid to look at, because we don't really know how to deal with it.

It is the Nothing like in the movie 'Neverending Story,' that threatens our understanding and is all consuming.

What is the answer to the Nothing that lies dormant that we easily deny while it slowly rises it's head?

I think it is not really in resisting it or fighting it.

It is realising that we made ideas to make us feel happy and we read stories of heros we admire.

In the end we should become the heros we read of.