One thing that is patently obvious, Kevin, is the need of so many quite surprising people for some sort of anagogic explanation of phenomena which don't need them. If they can somehow claim them as 'scientifically' based, don't they love it, just! And if they happen themselves to be 'distinguished scientists', doesn't everybody else ~~ except for perverse little boys like me who can see what the emperor is really wearing, so get patronised for saying patently obvious things like 'patently obvious'.

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