Science, history, interpretation of events, panic, fear, existentialism, natural life, and the social animal

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The hindsight of both science and history is always 20/20: never wrong about events, merely wrong about the interpretation of events.

Panic manifests action in panic, as in panic-stricken animals unable to direct themselves. Thus the underlying action done out of fear is not will directed.

Existentialism is the terror of meaningless possibility.

The victim is in the world but not responsible for it, and so is a displeased heir.

Repose may not be the natural state of mind. Repose may be cultivated, but the anxiety of striving for something better may be more natural. Natural must not be confused with good.

Can a social animal life a life of individual absoluteness, or is one confined to social relativities.

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These selected fragments are excerpted from unpublished writings by Jack Haas; selections from the notebooks 1990-2005.