Maybe it is just me, but I cannot refrain from noticing how the "layman examples" and "imagining" he makes seem a bit off in a funny way.

>There’s an image in my head that helps me make sense of this:

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>I’m driving towards the horizon in the desert.

Wait a minute, a man can dream, but the image in your mind is driving in a Ferrari towards the horizon in the desert.

And right after:

>Instead, the car ran out of gas, and it’s just me now.

Maybe if you had an ordinary pickup with a couple jerry cans in the back you would have gone further?