Roissy and I have had our fair share of arguments. At some point, I realized that most of it was due to my being incomprehensible to him. I exist outside his worldview, so rather than being able to understand what I’m saying, he has a kind of imaginary Nicole that he can comprehend.

Hopefully experience will help him to figure out that his view of reality is overly limited, so that he can at least avoid making a fool of himself. I’m not very optimistic about that though, as he is very herd dependent. The only people who would notice that he was way off are as far outside his worldview as me.

Harsh as this sounds, I don’t really fault him for it. It would be like faulting a bunny rabbit for being furry.

When a rabbit sees the shadow of an eagle flying overhead, it doesn’t care if the eagle is hungry at the moment, or prefers to eat rats or snakes. It just reacts with fight or flight. The fact that bunnies get eaten by eagles often is evidence that they don’t always do either effectively.

So don’t sweat it. At the end of the day, education never turns a rabbit into an eagle. Whatever knowledge you gave him about your culture or spirituality would have been wasted anyway.

This is why I don’t bother doing more there than offering perspective to people who don’t have his limitations, but are just interested in the topic.