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I've spent my life observing |
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and then pondering this place |
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and never has confusion ever ceased |
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I've also heard a lot of exaltation for our kind |
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and sanctimonious reverence for peace |
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The stories from our childhood |
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condition us to think |
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that beauty is a basic human trait |
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but how are they reconciled with daily realities |
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like poverty and dominance and rape |
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But you have to be |
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stone cold dead not to see |
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overwhelming incongruity |
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as we search for suggestions to remedy... |
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...Mediocrity |
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If you just sit back and record what you see |
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the tragic and exquisite are the same to some degree |
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but most events depict a common theme: |
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there's far more disorder |
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than there is harmony |
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I said you've got to be |
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stone cold dead not to see |
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overwhelming incongruity |
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It is pointless to search for teleology |
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Mediocrity |
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(always mediocrity) |
