If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo - but zebras were a rare legendary creature that had finally been decided to be mythical - then there's a certain sort of person who would ignore dragons, who would never bother to look at dragons, and chase after rumors of zebras. The grass is always greener on the other side of reality.

Which is rather setting ourselves up for eternal disappointment, eh? If we cannot take joy in the merely real, our lives shall be empty indeed.

A subsequence of Reductionism.

Blog Posts

Joy in the Merely Real
Joy in Discovery
Bind Yourself to Reality
If You Demand Magic, Magic Won't Help
- Mundane Magic
The Beauty of Settled Science
Amazing Breakthrough Day: April 1st
Is Humanism a Religion-Substitute?
Scarcity
To Spread Science, Keep It Secret
Initiation Ceremony
Awww, a Zebra

See also

Think Like Reality (and Beware the Unsurprised)
Reality is normal, Egan's Law
Joy in discovery