Stan,

You're welcome and you are right. Not too many people look very far under the surface, since, as you point out, it has no immediate survival function.

The reason I've spent my life trying to peel away the layers is that I continually had the sense the surface is fleeting and it is necessary to dig down to find what it's based on.

Eventually the towers of bullshit do fall over and hopefully people learn a few more lessons.

Though it seems most people have committed too much of their lives to these beliefs, to imagine seeing beyond them.

So I like looking around to find other people who prefer light over heat.