Yes, but... not b/c the dream stage includes the possibility of succeeding. It's all the other possible outcomes that make it richer and preferable to the reality stage, where one and only one thing will be. Even if that thing IS success. This is the unknown vs certainty, the unfortunate and mind-bending nature of desire. The reason https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_on_a_winter%27s_night_a_tra... is so great. And the reason I'm not doing what I should be doing... :(
I was gonna say "fundamentalism does not always imply religion," but I read a few of his posts and he's definitely a nutbar.
E.g. "The females of all mammalian species, including humans, always have more power than the males, and, in every human society, women are slightly better off than men are." (Based solely on longevity and reproductive success, "the only two biologically meaningful measures of welfare.") It sounds like he's one of those "women are better off than men because they can get laid whenever they want and I can't" guys.
Mighty interesting, sure. Still, I can't stand these awe-driven narratives. The formula is getting old and in the jumping from one wow to the next a lot of the real questions and facts are left half-explained. And as somebody already pointed out, the units... football fields, Hiroshima bombs and the area of California... they should standardize those already, right? Journalists could use abbreviations and the rest of us would get to write unit converters when learning a new programming language.
ha! Good question, I guess they'll say its magical realism with strong late-cuneiform influences, judging from what little is left from the devastating eruption from a vulcano no one ever found.
