...and way down [the Rabbit Hole] we go
Welcome to the tea party. Assessing the damage begins by determining the trajectory first: is it down or rather up the aforementioned pitfall? The distinction itself is noteworthy, as the descent [or potentially ascent ] into madness necessitates a primordial origin of sorts. One does not randomly find themselves amidst a free fall, stagnant, almost motionless, being somewhat spontaneously spaghettified by the cosmic forces of a black hole of massive proportions, from both extremities, simultaneously. More realistically, the starting point can strictly be only either at the opening of the hole, before the moment of the fall, or at the very bottom of the pit once the fall has already occurred, and the individual is now tasked with the impossibly difficult burden of finding a way out of the hole. In either case, why are we, as humans, quick to attribute any kind of fall or climb as an inherently unfortunate series of events? The physical act here must be carefully divorced from the epi...