This was a hard lesson for Dr. Patrick because he spent years working on the care of malnourished children and was rewarded in being part of the group that wrote the definitive protocols. Africa taught him that not all stories of meaning open up the world in the same way. The objectives of this session are to understand that experimental science does not arise de novo, to understand that fatalism is deep in Eastern religion and in animism, to understand that the post modern nihilist has the same problem and to learn the first steps in unpacking this problem.