The sophisticated are not afraid of anything---except others who are not afraid of anything. The sophisticated form clubs and cabals. They have long meetings until meetings are no longer necessary. The sophisticated understand belief is hard-wired and cannot be avoided. Some populations are fearless due to credulous, optimistic beliefs and these populations must be targeted for destruction and panic. The nearly sophisticated lack an understanding of belief; they believe things without knowing it. The nearly sophisticated run interference for the sophisticated, sowing doubt and panic in the optimistic populations. Optimistic belief has always confounded the world. The sophisticated understand belief itself is atomistic reality. The truly sophisticated do not confute belief, but invent new beliefs for their shock troops, the nearly sophisticated. Poet, let us hope and be naive--- admitting, in order to love, the optimism we must believe.