THE GOOD WORD ACCORDING TO · THE ULTRA-HARRIER
VINNIE
Harry mentions something strangeEvery man is an island
Chapter 71
And why will they be better off?
2qBecause they will have truly stopped thinking about anything at all,
3rExcept their own personal desires,
4aBecause everything else is too big and complicated to figure out,
5bOr is somebody else’s responsibility,
6cOr somebody else’s fault,
7dOr there just isn’t enough information,
8eAnd who has the time to look anything up anyway,
9fAnd besides almost everybody else is only thinking of their own personal desires,
10gAnd so it’s obvious you can’t trust what they say,
11At all,
12hBecause the truth of things is always that there are hidden agendas,
13iAnd dirty hands in the till,
14jAnd most of the facts are just fancy lies that you can’t trace back to their source,
15Because you’d have to go all the way back to the days of khomo erectus and it still wouldn’t change a thing,
16lAnd it’s all so obvious and widespread and powerful that there’s nothing any one person can do,
17mAnd why should they try,
18nAnd who are they to say anyway,
19And all that,
20oBecause it must be somebody else’s responsibility to fix the really big things that are wrong,
21If they could be fixed at all,
22pWhich they never have been anyhow,
23And so what good does it do to think about anything,
24qAnd school was a long long time ago,
25rAnd it seems like the facts are mostly in anyway,
26sAnd they all boil down to the one indisputable fact that every man is an tisland,
27And had better look out for himself first.
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