…because they were. What my reading matter was telling me was hot, which was basically the village voice back then. And I in Sartre, in is it being and nothingness? I can't remember. Anyway, makes this amazing statement. Nature is mute. This is the end of…

…matter, that we are lost in a universe that has no meaning for us, that we must make our meaning. This is what Sartre and all, and Kirkhae, all those people are saying, that we must make our meaning. It reaches its most absurd expression in Sartre's…

…Well, so what I'm offering as a counterpoise to that is this notion of provisional models. Nature is not muted. This is what Sartre said. Nature is mute. He was another one of these people who pushed this existential line in one form or another. Nature…

…bad little boys of science. You only have to avail yourselves of these shamanic tools to rediscover a nature which is not mute. As Sartre said in a kind of culmination of the modern viewpoint, nature is not mute. It is man who is deaf. And the way to…

…that when you lift the veil, then the screaming elf hordes come bounding in. And when I did it, I was a fan of Sartre and Camus and Jean Janet and situationalism, all this weird kind of european, 20th century spun down, tired out stuff. I was not a…

…this from my own intellectual journey. When I was 1415 and 16. The world looked very bleak. And so I read Camus and Sartre and the lesser lights of that dreary french existential school. And because it was true, you had to come to terms with it.…