I’m Carl, born and raised in the stability of post–WWII Arizona. Despite this normalcy, I’ve been out of step with mainstream culture for the past eight decades. This disconnect has led me to question nearly everything.
These pages reflect my evolution, first shaped by D. C. Lau’s translation of the Tao Te Ching, which I picked up while hitchhiking in Vietnam in ’64. Augmenting this has been a love of science and above all, my life experience (see my bio). I offer the observations here not as final answers, but as stepping-stones on your own path of discovery.
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— Carl Abbott
P.S. I felt my “final” post in 2017, “The Tradeoff,” fully summed up my understanding of life and our species. Yet, I find myself with the urge to boil down my take on life even further—perhaps to the very bone. Anyhow, if you’re game, see Occam’s razor.