Beyond Even the Consolation of Boethius

"Premodern Islam beats postmodern Christianity" [or other similarly enervated isms, including that of Herr Karl]. It says little good about the human race that our minds so 'abhor a vacuum' that masses embrace a virulently Vicious Something rather than continue the day with a mere handful of dust. It says even less good about those within the human race who deliberately seek out the most creative, truth seeking, and life-affirming aspects of our world, only to deliberately seek to render them into that dust, into oblivion....