No.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.