Everyone thinks just as much as they can...

...no more and no less.

Lest you think he/she/it "of few words" (or "of clever retorts", or "of simplistic replies") could say more than the little he does say, know that if he could, he would. That's why all descriptions of Heroes and Gods and Supermen, include a reference to a "FACT" that while they are BIG on Action, they are "of few words", because the description comes from other men, who can only think that far and no farther.

This idea filtered down into the life of men who believe they are "striving to be" (like) them; that "stopping thought", or "clearing the mind", or becoming like a mirror in there, is something worthy of their (continued) "effort".

Hah!!

That is a retro approach to reaching the Future. That is the "unknown realization" that man can not think more than he can, "rationalizing that inability", saying that "super" men are "of few words". Hah! They are simply birds that can not fly; fish that can not swim; men that can not think more than they already can - but now, with a big stupid smiley face on.

All thought, systems of thought, philosophies, religions, sciences and the arts, are from the past - but with a built-in, almost genetic notion, some call it memetic notion, that they are from the Real Objective Immutable Future.

The past is genetic drift, genetic succession. Life, as lived by men, is all forms and aspects of this genetic line of succession, or proper replacement, expanding thru man (in the mind, not the physical body - from his personal point-of-view, the mind is expanding and changing, the body is not). For a man, his body represents the immutable past, and his mind represents the Future.

The past is the need at the genetic, cellular level and not at the level of man's intellect, which informs all the subsequent forms and aspects of his life. It is the genes (genetic line of succession) that needs heroes; seeks revenge; writes paeans to suffering; looks back in fondness; reads/writes/enjoys history; feels prideful, fearful, patriotic; reads/hears/enjoys in any intellectual or spiritual way, wise words from 4000 years or 4 days ago.

It is NOT man that enjoys all this, it is his genes. It is NOT man that profits by thinking further about that which his genes are pursuing behind his back, and that includes the entire human race with all its interests, involvements, aspirations. That is, the Game of Civilization.

He, of few words, can NOT think more than he can, because if he could, he would. Why? Because information is energy. And if a man only uses the energy "up to here" or only "up to here", then he's only extracted the minimum possible for him right then. ("Extract", "minimum", "him", are just words but they "point to" a reality behind the words.)