Humans have the ability to recognize over 10,000 faces

Or so I have read, in Psych 101 many years ago.

It's a good idea to read Chinese, the capacity for understanding is there whether it is used or not. At first it seems as though all the words are expressed together in the mind's eye. After a while of sorting through the material one gets to a time when the human capacity to recognize faces gets a major confidence upgrade. That's when it starts to seem funny. This happened to me in 1990 and I'm not sure what the downside is. Well, actually, there is a downside, it's a certain kind of new responsibility that as a European or American, one doesn't necessarily have the training to understand. I guess I could express it by saying that now, when I watch The X-Files, that scary show on Fox TV with Mulder and Scully, that the storylines all remind me of business owners and factory managers trying to stay alive in 3rd world countries. This explanation is maybe unsatisfying and difficult to understand, but people have been trying to describe this Asian process for a long time now, I thought I would give it a try.

Or maybe its like there is a series of vast warehouses out West that are full of stuff that no one has ever taken care of, that have been hit by tornadoes down through the years, and one has gotten a summer job organizing the material in the warehouse.