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Friday, July 26, 2002

Is doubt more analogous to a virus or to a cancer? In one respect, it can be introduced into the brain by a foreign entity, a leeching parasite able to self-replicate ad infinitum. Sometimes this is too much for our immune systems to bear, and we get quite ill(tempered). On the other hand, it can be entirely self-induced. It can start with one single cell of confidence becoming corrupt. This one cell corrupts other cells of certainty which in turn corrupt others. The affliction feeds upon itself and robs healthy faculties of life until it weighs one down like a tumor (and is oftentimes as visible). It turns us against ourselves.

I suppose then that doubt is like both. It can be contagious, or (and?) rot from within.

(This is what happens when my I miss my train. I swear I set the alarm.)

Posted by morland @ 07:47 PM

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