and perhaps avoiding is the way to survive... or distracting, disassociating, diminishing the seriousness of everything... diluting the experience of life by narrowing perception to a few meters or less and finding some satisfaction in whatever, even if it is in complaining about the discomfort of the unknown deluded beyond perception... perhaps delusion is the only way to survive... avoiding the horrors of humanity, the cruelties committed every day in the name of gods and money and sex and power, and the pretenses...