In short, *this guy* here, live as of a few minutes ago (still
   alive while typing), is *probably* not going to solve all of the
   mysteries of the Universe. At the same time... just *maybe* he
   will. One of the wonderful things about _not_ being embedded in
   a particular field. When you're a nobody, you always have room
   to be a "somebody". And of course you have to be somebody to be
   a nobody 'cause otherwise, you'd be a nothing. But even a
   nothing is a thing. So yeah. I gotta remind myself of this
   sometimes. Doesn't take away from the validity of anything I say
   but I believe that ideas are tied into the people, and the
   people into cultures and histories... and histories are
   interestingly constructed stories... told by languages
   ever-changing through usage and the subcultures they're embedded
   in. It doesn't mean we can't have solid ground. But I think the
   grounding is that it's people dealing with people in the end,
   whether alive or from the past. The fact that we can build stuff
   with smaller things and predict behaviors better than in the
   past - well, it's all from our perspective and for our use in
   the end.