The Earth has two poles, and both are extremely cold places to live. Humans have decided not to tackle living in the extremes. They have opted for all the places in between, especially the temperate zones.
Inside every person are two poles of realization about living. One is represented by T.S. Eliot's The Hollow Men. He very pessimistically penned the words representing his world:
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion.
The other pole is represented by the psychological notion that what we think of ourselves in the world is what we actually become in the world, also known as inner self talk. This notion was put forth by Albert Ellis in the form of an ABC model (A is an activating event, B is one's belief as a result of A, C is the consequence of B). Eldon Taylor has commercialized this model in his work with subliminal messages, helping people create a robust belief in themselves. He tells them that through positive inner talk they can achieve what they desire or alter their mode of operating.
Most of us have decided to live according to realizations of our own somewhere in between the extremes of the Hollow Men, where nothing counts for anything and the world ends "with a whimper, not with a bang," and the positive inner self talk, where the world is merely a reflection of the perception of ourselves. Those poles are too extreme to live at; it's much more temperate between them... and I'm satisfied with that.
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