**Links to**: [[001 Introduction to the Poltergeist]], [[000 Introduction to the introduction]], [[000 Question]]. Many concepts and entries in this work are presented as _postulates_. It is preferred to use _postulate_ rather than _thesis_ (‘upon’ which something is _set_, erected), given that to postulate is not only to ask for something to be taken as a “brute fact” (see also: [[Brutality]]) but to _ask_, to ask for someone’s _life-time_ (stemming from PIE, _prek_- meaning: “to ask, to entreat”, from which _prayer_ also stems. It is thus, additionally: a kind of desire I cannot avoid). In Lithuanian, part of the echo in my background (Dambrauskas): _prašyti_ (to ask, beg). I kindly ask you to consider these things, and I apologize in advance for the time they will ask of you (give it however much you think _works_). As I have repeatedly stated in various outlets: the last thing I want is to tell others how to live. Unfortunately, philosophy and much of everything else often results in top-down management, disguised as something else. It is sometimes a necessary evil but one that we can perhaps modulate towards less oppressive landscapes of sociality. See also: [[000 Question]] and [[Problem]].