You come on strong
For someone who doesn't know his ass from his elbow, given indissolute youth, about how it is that we all are.
It's, "sheer intelligence", by the way; not, "shear".
Squeeze all you can, Jack, out of your writing "for more than 12 years". No self-respecting, intelligent writer -- thinker -- would be caught dead saying that in public, unless an indissolute flack.