a good horse runs even at the shadow of the whip

...which is a quote from the Buddha. It means not needing to belabor points to understand them. It means vision, insight, intelligence, energy, performance... it means quite a lot.

I have difficulty with the endlessness of saying the same thing, in different or in same ways, on the internet. People don't seem to remember that their desires and opinions are not really on point, not addressing the matter at hand. So many of us spend vital hours spinning our wheels, convinced as we are that we are doing good, accomplishing something. Expression is a tricky business and it is blinding. We mistake it for action. Worse, a lot of extremely intelligent sophists have come up with formidable arguments for opining as action. So even supposing one wakes up to the waste of one's own opining, there's the conceit of using the eloquent self-deceptions of brilliant men and women to defend continuing to plod while the whip is lashing at your butt so hard a damn rock would have stood up and rushed into action by now.