Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.

To generalize is to be an idiot.

We avoid it because we don't talk about it. We just go game to game and keep ourselves enthralled with the present, not with what could be or what was.

The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire.