# Do Not Try To Understand

The tongue-in-cheek cosmogony described by Douglas Adams in the Hitchhiker's Guide has been worming its way around my thoughts for some weeks now. I am coming to believe that it was startlingly prescient. That theory is discussed in @sec-2,
but first a little background on ideas.

## 1: Mental Health

> Where others have carved their numbers, and Alberto and I our names, Clausner has written: *‘Ne pas chercher a comprendre.’*\
~**Levi**, *If This Be a Man (1947)*

This moment, experienced second-hand by an Italian Chemist in a concentration camp, was not the first time someone shied away from an idea for the sake of their own health. 
