907. THERE'S NO MAD INTENTION IN LIVING THIS WAY, NO MAD INTENTION AT ALL

THERE'S NO MAD INTENTION

IN LIVING THIS WAY, NO

MAD INTENTION AT ALL

Like the forgotten moment's undertow;
'we may have built the pyramids just like
the pyramids built us. A magic confabulation
of mystical likes and dislikes. We confound it all
now.' Running trains on time, signing treaties
on nuclear arms and debt and trade, shooting
dissenters, or having them shot, from distant
windows and ledges and walls. In the long run,
all this nothing will make no difference, and, as
Keynes has mentioned before, 'in the long run,
we're all dead.' Just like the pyramids' magical
undertow, we have all been swept away.