In math, it is the symbol indicating the operation of raising from the base. In modernity, it is the quickened pace of the life we live, beyond the scope of our own humble efforts to control. In reality, most of life passes by within a whirlwind of work and sleep, with small interludes of memorable pieces of times spent otherwise. Sanity is challenged exponentially; stress has increased exponentially; the lights, the sounds, the constant noise from the streets — all, a greater volume of exponential capacity beyond what the human ear can sustain, resist or otherwise bear. Have our bodies and minds kept up — exponentially — with the increase of the world around us? Or, do we remain within the evolutionary accident of the slow but steady adaptive genes trying to allow for the natural law of “survival of the fittest” to catch up, all the while merely remaining where we were tens of thousands of years ago — of the exponent of “1”? Federal Disability Retirement is a law which recognizes the incompatibility between the medical condition — an exponent of many — as against the type of duties required of a position. Incompatibility occurs when the medical condition(s) suffered are no longer compatible with continuing in a position where the various elements of the position can no longer be satisfied. It is based upon the identical principle as the exponent — the contrast between what is required in modernity as opposed to the capacity of the human mind and body. For Federal...

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