All select a core set of principles, and they are as random as an honest gambler’s dice. Life’s long task is to adapt those principles to survive the complexity of the next billion choices, and discover the unteachable adaptations demanded by the doors of serenity. Any thorough philosophy of lasting note is a temporary place of coherence that extends into complexity. To pretend it is a stable bedrock upon which to rest an understanding of the universe is to start a cult.
