1. Every person is driving his own car in an unknown territory. This car is a hi-tech car that all windows work like semi-transparent monitors showing movies. These movies can provide the driver with real simulated experiences that seem real. For instance, the car may be in a desert, but the inner windows project a view of seaside making the driver believe that he is in seaside.
2. Outside of the car is pitch black and nothing can be seen.
3. Long time ago, to get rid of anxiety of facing unknown, people instinctively, by guesswork, or by design projected comforting movies with happy endings on the windows. Movies that made the journey through unknown territories enjoyable and meaningful.
4. Scientific progress equipped people with a weak flashlight to shed light into the darkness outside the car. Science like a candle in the dark revealed small details of the territory outside of the car and began to contradict the comforting movies projected by religions, superstition, or even common sense.
5. These contradictions destroyed the past comforting movies and caused meaninglessness and mass nihilism. The mixture of religions and science could not provide a coherent and beautiful movie anymore, and ugliness and meaningless inside the car led masses into nihilism and depression.
6. The real problem was that science (as a candle in the dark) is incapable of shedding light on the vast landscape outside of the car. The incomplete movie directed by science lacks meaning, purpose, and comforting scenarios.
7. Many find confrontation with uncertainty (and unknown territory outside the car) a daunting task and relapse to watching old movies.
8. A minority are intelligent and brave enough to face the unknown. Some try to see as far as possible by the weak flashlight of science. They learn that science cannot give them the whole picture, yet they do not deny or reject it. Instead they overcome this meaninglessness by filling the gap left by science by their own artistic creativity. They direct their own meaningful and beautiful movies that do not contradict science. They do their best to understand what is going on inside and outside the car (and try to gain control in 5 areas of control). They become their own prophet. They know only experiencing the most beautiful entertainment inside the car could justify living inside this mysterious car moving on such an unknown territory.
Nezman knows that the movie inside the car should be as real as possible by accurately scanning the outside territory by the flashlight of science (L2). However, that is not enough. L1 and L3 lenses should beautify the incomplete movie made by L2 lenses.
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