Man is the Exceptioner creature  --  not, an exceptional creature,
but a creature who deals in exceptions;
he is the only wheeler- dealer animal,

Real understanding is mental nourishment in a single swallow:
it all goes down in one piece;
not being able to make satisfying sense of what the mind sees is
taking in your food fractured and piecemeal,
and always found in the middle of the neural victuals rumble is the word but.
“Yes, I heard your view on the matter, and can understand why you think as you do, but  --  you are wrong”  --   wrong! –
you can understand nothing about any matter where the word, but is present.
 

"But" (technically):
“A coordinating conjunction: connecting two clauses” (ideas) “of equal weight” –
“What you think” --   AND  --  “What I think!, (which primarily is that):
your thinking is wrong!  --  which is why I put a big, ‘but’ in my above comment to you.”
 

“True, I am thirsty --  BUT--  I will not drink” --  no such words are ever heard;
no such sentiment exists;
the body has no knowledge of such a concept;
“I am dying of dehydration  --  I will seek water  --   no buts about it.”
 

Looked at in total: being alive is an all or nothing proposition,
with no room for maneuvering, or weighing conflicting ideas:
“On one hand: I am hungry  --  BUT  -- on the other hand
I have this curious idea of not eating” --
outside of man’s figuratively tongued cities,  no such words from any creature come.
 

BUT --  even man does not engage in such to his physical detriment  --  just
(from the view reported on here each day) his mental.
There are no, buts in the physical life of a normal human,
but without them, his mental/verbal life would be a shambles;
just try thinking about what you would say to anyone about anything in a discussion regarding those special matters in the lives of men which have no material substance, and you will quickly see (if that is your desire) that all of your ideas, in their expression, will contain a, but.
It is impossible to talk about religion, art, politics, morality, et al
without the word, but being employed:
but is as natural and integral to all discussions concerning man’s inner reality
as fish are to any talk of fishing.
 
 

Whatever life moves an ordinary man’s brain to think & tongue to say
will always contain the word (or concept of) --  but;
now ask yourself several: Whys & Whats:
“Why can I have thoughts about the instinctive, physical drives necessary to stay alive without the word, but  -–   but,
by nature I automatically include the word, but as the pivot point in any thoughts I have regarding the non material, inner reality  --   why?  --
what is it about that second, inner reality, so special to man,
and which distinguishes his consciousness and uniqueness,
that requires the use of the word/concept, but in the middle of every idea I have concerning it?
In the outer reality: If I am tired  --  I never think:
‘I am tired --  but I disagree with that, thus  --  I will not rest’  --
but no matter what subject in the mental, inner reality I think, or speak about,
but automatically appears right in the middle of it;
why must every thought & statement about anything that men cannot physically touch always contain the word, but  --  why? --
what is going on here that men normally never notice?”
(If the dog in your head barked any louder you might actually be forced to say: “Hey --  there's a dog in there barking!”)
 
 
 
 

Utilization of the above enables man to be  --  The Exceptioner  --
always stating exceptions;
“Yes, I was agreeing with what you were saying --  until you got to the last part”
“X religion or political party has some decent ideas --  except for.......”
“I once thought things were about to straighten out, but then so & so happened” –
open your ears and the examples floating in the air (and in your head) are endless.
 

The body makes no exceptions save specifics based on survival;
it is simply beyond its conception or its reality to think of an exception to eating,
or drinking water, only specific ones of not eating THAT particular poisonous berry,
or drinking from THAT contaminated pond,
but mind constantly and casually deals in exceptions that have no value,
which quite simply is any exception drawn concerning any matter in the inner reality.
“Yes, Cinderella’s dress is nice --  but nothing compared to last year’s."
 

As presently arranged: life has normal men’s brains/minds incessantly trying to make mental deals with the ideas it commonly provides to him collectively;
the operational play-out of this amounts to men continually thinking and saying:
“Okay, here is what we as a species think  --   and we know it sucks  --  BUT! --
let me explain to you why I am an exception” –
this is at the un looked-at, un listened-to foundation of man’s speech & concepts of all things vaporous, spiritual, mysterious and otherwise un touchable --  AND
(not, but, but, and)  --   AND  --  it goes on in your own head.
 

Heeding only your automatic consciousness, you think that you actually think – BUT --
extract all of the, buts from what you think  --
drop all of the exceptions your thoughts normally include concerning
what you think about other people’s thoughts and your mind will be wiped clean;
if your desire is to see what is going on that others do not –
this will finally enable you to realize that not only is Cinderella naked  --

A mind free of buts and exceptionalizing  --   swallows whole,
thus is it finally  --  actually nourished by what it takes in,
and no longer suffers bouts of meaningless choking on life       --------         and itself.