Jed McKenna's Theory of Everything

We are programmed from birth to believe that our existence is an unsolvable riddle, but if we make an honest effort, we discover that mystery itself is the riddle. Not just what is the big mystery, but why is there any mystery at all? And what if there isn't? What if the Mysterium Tremendum is just an internal belief without any external counterpart? What if the answers to life's biggest questions were all hidden in plain sight?

'If man will strike, strike through the mask!

How can the prisoner reach outside except

by thrusting through the wall?'

-Captain Ahab