can any of us count the stars in the sky if we cannot even know how many of these there are how can we know anything about the world in which we live how can we be so sure about what its rules are and how it works even the most sophisticated amongst us are just innocents abroad strangers in a strange land doing all we can to act as if we know our way around just to reduce our sense of vulnerability.

how lost we are in a world we call our own.