the second step...

...is a deduction: The less I am in control of me, the more I am prey to even the most toothless of elements in my environment.

Bridled by the controlling elements that use us we eagerly rise every morning to be saddled anew. For otherwise we are reactionary schizoids unable to protect ourselves from the battering waves and forceful currents that drag us first this way and then the other. We comfort ourselves with the notion that it is best to be a slave on the ship than it is a freeman overboard.