Yeah I used to think that.  And it's true the origins, dangerous childhood and such, and true as well the dangers implicit.  I studied a lot of biology and psych in my twenties, by my thirties a very elegant theory.

I though it was perfect.  Inarguable.  A functional description of ... well pretty mmuch what happens when a dog sniffs ya.  They can smell it all.  We're just a bit toned down, so we attribute it to things.  Bla bla bla.

And then came the internet. 

That ... all went out the window.  Fast.  I've mentioned being a world builder on Active Worlds when that was a thing.  I can read people just as easily on the internet.  By their Avatars.  Just by the sense of them.  

Impossible.

Truly.  But I could and it checked out.  Playing all these people here ?  These predators and thieves ?  Even before all that when it was terrorist cells and their 'bomb plots'.  Tracking Russian propaganda farms ... all of it was just ...

More than that.  None of what he said is wrong, except the belief that it's limited to physical presence and reading the person like we all do.  It's not.

What it is ... 

Well now I have new 'theories'.  A working sense of what's happening but I completely accept that some new factor's going to blow it out of the water again.  I don't actually believe I know or understand Anything like Any of that, other than it's consistency and functionality in getting a job done.

Lots of people don't know how a microwave works. 

But they know when they push these certain buttons, the shit gets hot.  II do know how a microwave works but I don't claim to know how the hell I can get a reliable read off someone's avatar on the internet.  Nor even what many women ask me for.

Apparently it's good for their skin.  No idea.

But you know there it is and when you live a life ... and that life has certain consistencies ... you just go with it.  There's a lot of things like that in my life.  And every single one of them you've seen at play here.  But I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything, I've got no use for that.

I'm not a cultist.

But I will say to not always accept the easy answers.  I think that one gives comfort, as it did for me, but not truth.  Nor even fact.  Results seen.

I'm smart.

But not the level of smart required to turn that, into what's happened here.  I've Never been in a room, with Any of these people.  And I don't actually watch their videos (drama).  Sure sometimes they post an honest pic and I spot a thing but I don't follow their accounts. 

I just think about them and I know !

I have to be honest.  Because I can here.  Because here I know the reader has the comfort of disbelief so it doesn't matter.  Because right now I don't need to look and so I don't see.  That response anyone would give in person when I really get honest about myself.

Which I don't.

My life is Filled with shit like that.  

Yeah I've got theories.  Lots of easy answers.  Complicated solutions.  But the fact is we do not know Shit.  Except what we can rely on and how.  The rest just makes us feel less powerless, pretending we understand things which really we don't.

Never accept the easy answer.

Though I appreciate the intent.  Addendum.

Living as a professional thief in Seattle was a response to that realization.  To be able to sense when the person or people behind the cameras happened to be looking away, as well as the people in the room, without needing to look at them.

And I was a Very good thief, until I learned what I needed, which is what you've seen happen here in application.  To read over the wires, once I realized I could.  And then not to even need them.  

And here we are.

You're very much an extremist in life, so I think you'll understand.  When it comes to what it is I 'do', I am Very much the same way.  To the fucking Limits.  As seen.  And what a fucking ride it's been.  No regrets.

We know nothing.

The second we think we've got it all sorted is the moment we know that we're wrong.