We were made to believe <br> our faces betrayed us. <br> Our bodies were loud <br> with yellow <br> screaming flesh <br> needing to be silenced <br> behind barbed wire.
The opposite of thinking clearly is being muddled. To be conscious of being muddled is a horrible experience. To avoid it we may even be tempted to shut our minds and swallow a belief, ready-made, from some expert authority.