ABSTRACT
The truth is that we are all pig watchers whether we want to be or not. As any coffee-house metaphysician will tell you with great assurance (as Plato did), we are only watching shadows on the wall of the cave when we think we are observing reality-whether it’s a real pig or a hand shadow puppet is not ours to know. We have to live with reality as its facts are handed to us. Pure technicians will work at the level of reality and facts they can observe and manipulate without speculating about the pig. They will observe and abstract symbols from events. Fundamentalists will study pigs till they are blue in the face (the fundamentalists, not the pigs). Time for a little fun!
