the human condition is richly exploredded by literature, history, and philosophy. it's much more difficult to understand because it is so various and complex, and a lifetime's work to try to understand one's self and others given diversity from others one's selfs, but we have to start there in order to work with the grain of human nature, to try to be tolerant, give people the marching of possibility for themselves to find lives that feel good to them. one key thing here is there. for most of history, most people and, alas, still today, have been told there's one right way to live, one great truth, one answer to the question of what it all means. what the enlightment of the 18th century reminded us, actually, which is that there is a great diversity in human talent for good lies. there's a great diversity of human beings, not to put in mind what was said meditating on the golden rule which says do to others what they do to you. under which circumstances should you do to others under which they do to you? they may not like it. it's a dine -- deep point because we ha