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Thanks! My goodness, Jay.  Let us return to the neurosurgery and rocket science.  Maybe I should have read the Cliffs Notes.  He did get the Nobel Prize in literature.  The book is long and I found it tedious, too, but I think it aptly captures the human predicament––at least enough to come fresh and foggy to mind after 50 years.  Back to evil anti-evolutionists! which are a clear and present danger.

On a serious note, I think Uzzo's comments the best, and Martin's concerns much warranted.  I think the way through and around the issues are a positive attitude that emphasizes the predictive benefits of theory and understanding.  Anger needs to drive us to considered action and not retribution.
C
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>> The fact is the universe never established any facts but we depend upon them for our transitory existence, that's the conundrum.
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>> If memory serves me correct, I think Herman Hesse stumbled upon this in Magister Ludi.
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> Yes! An almost appropriate allusion to the Glass Bead Game, which is a rare example of a book for which the Cliffs Notes are actually better than the book itself.
> Society is perpetuated by cloistered intellectuals playing incomprehensible games involving the breadth of human knowledge. If only we could be THAT lucky.
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