We Don't Pay Any Attention to Being

We don't think being reveals things. We just don't pay any attention. I show my students in my maps of any class, pinocchio. You'll go to see pinocchio, you don't even notice that a puppet has just gone into a whale. And the reason you don't notice that is because it means something. These are religious experiences that people have in movie theatres. They suspend disbelief. It's not rational, but they believe it. To wish on a star is to put your eyes above the horizon and to pick a transcendent point. The absence of evil may be virtue in and of itself.