such a lovely child and left in the middle of such a ruin ... sierra perdito ... metaphysics abandoned by a desolate epistemology ... when no one trusts the other's point of view ... when no one trusts his own ... ethics is forced to connive in order to survive when thought is reduced to calculation ... when judgment is deprived of a foundation science must orbit round faith orbit with calculation ... when understanding comes to mean our agreement ... then that we agree this is just an agreement what defense is left against the tyranny of the arbitrary and the absurd ... so here we stand ... rather let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of god ... for we have no understanding ... we've reasoned it away ... we have no judgment ... instead we have lots of expedients ... and of course the reason this leaves us with gathers no respect ... animals do it machines do it ... all together we put our pegs in a row ... all together we tie them up with string ... what wonder now our souls we say are these connections ... you see we have no understanding
with homage to william shakespeare, his richard II
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