It is every thinking person's duty to cultivate the voluptuous panic of vertigo, by staring into that void in which all the forms and norms of our daily lives are revealed to be meaningless. The problem with dizziness is not, however (as Sartre noted), how to keep from falling over the precipice, but how to keep from throwing ourselves over; how to remain dizzy [an Old English word which originally meant "foolish"] without becoming giddy, scatterbrained, fatally distracted, stupid? See: AVOIDER, DISTRACTED, FLIGHTY, GIDDY.

make dizzy or giddy; "a dizzying pace"

having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff"