My prescription is confusion. We should all feel more confused. Confusion and frightened reactions to confusion are different things, that’s the key. Confusion is cognition’s momentous humility; it is the resting of articulation in the face of reality which is too complicated to apprehend, which is inherently not fully knowable, even if you account for “good enough” understanding. Frightened reactions to confusion are the rigidification or striking-out that we do in response to confusion. These reactions hide from us the experience of confusion, because the feeling of confusion quickly gives way to the blindedness of rigidity, or the passion of striking-out. Confusion is not inherently scary. I would say it’s more inherently soft than scary. So if you feel scared of confusion, just know that’s a reaction to confusion. Confusion creates pause. We might say that certainty leads to the action impulse; confusion as its opposite leads to the waiting, stillness impulse. That’s why it’s my prescription. Confusion cools us down; certainty heats us up. We have too much heat. We ought to cool down a bit. Eventually we act anyways, even though we’re always indelibly confused. But we act with less attachment, more nimbleness, if we’ve done our time with the confusion. Think of confusion as a practice. Practice being confused. And also practice acting from confusion. I would say this essay is me acting from confusion.