Imagine a man endlessly praising the seats in a theater during a movie: "Shhh!", we'd say: "Enjoy the movie!" - is this the practical man? Or perhaps the scientist is this: utter fascination with a pixel to the exclusion of the entire screen - if we we're in the theater, wouldn't we find him peculiar? To be in a theater where one is probably mocked for actually watching the movie: the predicament of the philosopher. Or: the blind person who specializes in sight - the predicament of the academic philosopher. Or: the seeing who specialize in blindness - the predicament of the nominal Christian?