An old but amusing movie, the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" leaves the viewer wondering exactly which way the world is aligned, that is, precisely how do we view ourselves in this often bewildering reality?
     This comes through with particular force in the sequence of the Nowhere Man, here pictured as a little blue genie (jinni) who, though he is "here," eventually finds himself "nowhere" as the horizon and framework of his world gradually and inexorably shrink into nothingness.
     In a way, as the Beatles point out in the song, we're all like the Nowhere Man.  We all, as they note, tend to "see what we want to see," and we all, as they suggest, do not always "know where we're going to."  Like the little blue genie, we interact with the world, our reality, on the basis of our view of it, which of course is perfectly normal:  what other view would we use?  And like the genie, we do not always know exactly where we are going, that although we certainly develop various life paths and trajectories, we never fully know where they will take us.  The caprice of the world prevents us from doing so.
     Granted, we cannot see everything, and granted, we cannot understand everything.  However, if we steadfastly insist on constructing our world without any outside input, fresh information, or new insights, we will indeed, figuratively speaking, fade away, vanishing into the groundless parameters of our finite minds.  We really will be nowhere.
     Even those of us who are sure about what they believe should realize that the only thing we can really be certain of is that we believe it.  On the other hand, we cannot really believe anything unless there is a reason why we can.
     We are somewhere, yes, but without a reason for this "somewhere," we are in fact nowhere, just seeing what we want to see and never sure where we are going because there is in fact nowhere to go other than the horizons of our finite and etiologically unexplainable minds.  And who wants to live like that?