Why

does the man not see
the things?

He himself
is in the way:

he conceals the things.

The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. by J. M. Kennedy, aphorism 438

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Because

we have reached the point
of being able to see through a thing
we believe
that henceforth it can offer
us no further resistance

—and then we are surprised
to find that we can see through it
and yet cannot penetrate through it.

This
is the same kind
of foolishness and surprise
as that of the fly on a pane of glass.

The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. by J. M. Kennedy, aphorism 444

1. How much of my outsized ego continues to get in the way?
2. Am I fooled again? A grasp of a situation doesn’t mean that anything can, or ought to be done. To think otherwise well, that’s the sound of my chattering ego, again…

Perhaps you are in need to a tune to hold onto? Music seems to channel our emotions in a helpful, humanizing, direction,   The Who perform their anthem of resistance, a lyric that engages with the brute realism of our time.  Baba O’Riley by The Who.