This is just too good a commentary on the human condition to pass up at a time when the highest form of artistic expression is bathos. I offer this elegy to and about ourselves in the spirit of the times, and of its most charming feature--the way that it can transform anything into a series of small absurdities. It is offered, again in the style of the times, as cartoonery--befitting its subject.
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Lastly, perspective matters. If that desire to attain the perfect state of absurdity is as irresistible as it appears, then the human condition might best be understood in the current stage of human history, not as the production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot; but more as the spectacle of the early Byzantine Hippodrome (ἱππόδρομος) but from the perspective of the horses.
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