BRAIN IN THE VAT SCEPTICISM

the subject makes the object ... if you're god ... any other subject the object makes you ... from time to time comes a generation often after a war thinks it is god ... the collective vision of its subjective glare peoples the landscape with points of interest ... little hogs on a flat plain prickly but small ... and all with a set purpose ... set them on fire to light up the way ... we were never all that dumb ... we could see enough to know there was something there ... and more by touch and bruise we caught its corners and curves ... sometimes the endpoint was sharp enough to teach us a thing or two ... so came the circle to give us the rest to remember ... thank god even folly can give a good night's sleep ... in the morning there may be fog and by evening confusion ... the hedgehogs flare out ... small white points on a black curtain ... they pull it aside each morning and we start all over again ... same menu different words ... you are what you eat ... today for instance for breakfast we have brain in a vat ... what does it think of me when it's mine even though I think it's not ... who can say