How comes it, ye think, that man is so subject to abuse? --  self abuse,
for nothing attacks man save man,
yet for what reason doeth he so relentlessly assault his own being?
 

This self abuse is so unrelenting and all pervasive that men do not see it as a distinct human characteristic, but accept it  --  without comment –
as a natural part of their existence.
 

If a man speaks more than a dozen words on any subject or person
it is predictable that his comments will become mortally abusive;
be he president of a nation speaking on international politics,
or a pedestrian observing driver’s habits,
almost every compound sentence that ever is uttered by men on this planet
will be some form of abuse directly solely at man himself.
 

Men do not express abuse toward nature: at hurricanes, earthquakes,
volcanic eruptions --  all matters of extreme threat to man;
no, men are only abusive about themselves.
No matter the obvious dangers,
they never think of the natural world outside of them in abusive terms –
--  it is simply there --  hazards and all --
but they are never moved to make abusive comments thereabout;
although death could be seen as man’s greatest threat and adversary,
he does not in fact feel as abusive toward death itself as he does the actions of a man who causes the death of another.
 

It is as though man sees nothing condemnable in the entire universe except himself --  and this approaches the mere fact of him existing;
his words pick specific examples of human behavior for the abuse,
as though the specificity is proof the abuse is deserved,
but never does man face the full reality of the abuse being a constant factor in
the moment by moment entirety of his life.
(In case you have not noticed: this is a continuation of yesterday’s news regarding the missing possibility.)
 

So, why might it be that an integral part of man’s very essence
is for him to engage in endless self abuse?
Myths/religions say it is because he is flawed and knows it;
psychologies claim it is due to repressed traumas;
political/economic theories say it is due to inequitable social structures,
and so on, and while everyone knows they are all unsatisfying,
there is yet another possibility that never comes to mind:
a possibility so subtle and simultaneously astounding that
man cannot normally even think of it.
 

It is at the very edge of reality  --
8 words that point directly as can be to the missing possibility  --
that when realized, makes everything in the universe fall into place.
 

Pursue the question: "What could possibly be a reason that I have never heard of
that would explain man’s all encompassing, endless self abuse?
What could there be about man that he himself is not normally aware of, that if true, would explain this self abuse?"
(and unexpectedly, everything else).

                                                                     The end.
 

                                                                         J
 
 
 
 
 
 

Even when man is at what he considers to be his most intellectually pathetic,
he can still do things that nothing else he is aware of in the entire universe can do.