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The Contingency of Oarsmen

We call it inhuman, we call it monstrous, we call it illness--a pleading hope for distance, as though there has ever been anything on the planet capable of these things, besides the human being. As though we could disown it. As though we might, through civilized heartbroken denial, absolve the human race by mere redefinition.

"But it makes the world a more callous and inhumane place, to insist that what actually happened did not, to believe that our shared reality is just a tightly controlled causation machine for the unsighted masses to cog away in, while only the masterminds and the few for whom *truth* has been revealed really know what's going on."