Consider the statement...

[Iron Chob]

....one which I'm sure many of you have heard spoken as an empowering truth....

"Everything in moderation"

If the statement is true, then it applies to moderation being employed/enjoyed/experienced in moderation.

If it doesn't encompass the former, then the statement is false.

(Moderation, in this context, is defined as the avoidance of extremes in behaviour)

I have begun to wonder if the societal malaise which afflicts a great many people worldwide can be viewed thus, using this as a starting point.

I am not talking politics here btw - rather, the panorama of individual experience in the day to day existence of people living their lives.

Consider social media as an example - doom-scrolling or being endlessly plugged in and abreast of a constant stream of useless but exciting and conversation-worthy information....

Or the cutting edge particle physics researchers, who probe ever reducing quantities of matter in an effort to understand the basis of the firmament....

Perhaps the endless search for knowledge is itself a doorway to a peculiar madness, as our limited minds try to hold, store and interpret increasingly (meaningless?) and sometimes complex concepts that, of themselves, yield ultimately irrelevant information from a purely survival perspective.....are the properties of a quark essentially akin to what Dua Lipa is wearing to the next media photo shoot, and will masterful knowledge of either make the fields produce more food or produce rainfall which marks the end of a drought?

Perhaps the apex of wisdom, a quality as yet unchampioned and seemingly derided by vast swathes of people, is the understanding that....

....everything, everything, is to be enjoyed in moderation.....simply as an expression of healthy environs, both physical and metaphysical.