[cgbg]

“I know a lot of people involved (not from the government) who prefer to stay away from what they call “the Woo” for relatively innocent reasons (they believe it complicates an already extremely complicated and scary issue).”

The problem is that saying “we don’t know what it is” when you are just afraid to talk about what it is—well, that is a good time to sit down and stay quiet.

[RoosterRedux]

I know when I say, "I don't know what it is," I mean it is more complicated than my brain can imagine. I don't think this matter can be approached from an anthropocentric angle.

I remember when you described how the Indians in Virginia or Massachusett might have felt when they first saw the white mans' sailboats offshore as being magical white clouds blown along by the wind (your phrase was more eloquent but I can't remember it). The Indians had no frame of reference for what was about to happen.

I think we are in the same position.