It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.

They told me not to move and I did what they said. I didn't move an inch, not with that gun pointed at my head.

Human beings never think for themselves; they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view.

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds...this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics.

It's very easy to see those on a bedtime schedule and those not.

Bartok is not an easy repertoire. But Bartok with the Tokyo String Quartet would be the best way that you could hear it.