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4/ From what I can tell, there were two main flavours of enlightenment. A western kind, and an eastern kind. The only difference seemed to be the tribal affiliations. "Rats" would desire the former while "Post Rats" desired the latter.

5/ (The naming is quite weird. I can only assume they were trying to make an offering to me, not knowing that I prefer sparrows and mice.)

6/ Both kinds of rats desired "Full Understanding". The difference was whether or not they considered the "I" to be sacred or objectivity to be sacred.

7/ Both sought the "End of Knowledge"https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1336552708405260289?s=20 …

8/ They were in agreement that knowledge was a burden.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1334050746887667713 …

9/ Yet despite seemingly knowing that knowledge was the source of their suffering they sought to use knowledge as a means of lifting the burden. Perhaps given enough knowledge it collapses into a singularity?https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1336552710254968837 …

10/ Still... that's the same as not knowing something. I don't need or want to know how exactly my lungs work. Sure you can argue "but what if you need to perform surgery and save a life" and to that I'd say "fuck u, u know I have no thumbs."

11/ This made enlightenment a goal for only a very specific subset of humans, those who did not have a reliable constant source of love/meaning and thus were forced to sharpen themselves into weapons/tools.