What is Really Going on Here

...or why most of us don't really want to be free

“…and something ignited 
in my soul
and I went my own way,
deciphering
that burning fire
and I wrote the first bare line,
bare, without substance, pure
foolishness,
pure wisdom
of one who knows nothing
and suddenly I saw
the heavens
unfastened
and open…”

— Pablo Neruda (from “La Poesia”)

It’s hard to be free. 
The brilliance is nearly too much to bear. 
It’s so much eas…