Can You Answer Why?
3 min readApr 16, 2021
Once upon a time, I went out on a date with a girl who was kind enough to say yes. There clearly was not going to be a second date the moment she said she had ferrets for pets. All that aside, she asked the question which I thought had an obvious answer until it came up. “Why?”
I had been telling her about the books I had been reading, about the ideas they were fostering. She asked me, “Why?”
