You know how you’ll be looking at a menu like the one below?
“So, what would you like to order today?”
“An aneurysm…er…I mean…jeez, I didn’t know there were so many things you could do with a flour tortilla.”
“We have corn tortillas too”
“Yes, and that’s quite marvelous. What would you say the advantages of corn over flour tortillas are?”
“None to speak of.”
“Great, I’ll take two of those.”
“Just tortillas?! You don’t want anything on them?”
“Of course I do, however, I wasn’t prepared for the voluminous nature of your offerings and in order to be properly well-versed on the finer points of your menu, I would need at least 3 to 6 months of preparation and study…er…yeah…so, what I’m saying is…I’ll be back.”
“That’s nice, sir. So, will you being paying with cash or credit today?”
“Well, I don’t have any cash, so I guess…”
“Credit or debit then, sir?”
“Debit.”
“Great, your number is 42. Have a nice day.”
Or let’s say you’re at the supermarket and your need to buy some milk and there is about 50,000 different kinds. Which one should you get? Low fat? Organic? 2%? Whole milk? Dolphin-enhanced?
And then you get to thinking about how there are so many different kinds of milk and that maybe you don’t want milk after all anyway because maybe you’re more of an orange juice type person.
So then you go over to the orange juice section and get detained a moment in reality pondering over the pros and cons of pulp. Should orange juice have the pulp? Do you want extra-pulp? Do you want a heart palpitation? What would you like today, sir?
Or let’s say you’re the world’s most famous literary character and after a long litany of complaints regarding the abuses and injustices of the world, you ask whether it really wouldn’t just be better if you weren’t around at all to bear witness to such iniquities…
To be or not to be?
Indeed, what should one choose and how does one go about deciding?
How do you make up your mind?
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