the west? Because as you pointed out, your colleagues in Russia would say, you will discover this soon too. And this is the question, right? Have we discovered this? Is that what's happened here in the west that we discovered it at some point? And I would say in a sense we have, but then that brings us back to the deeper question, which is, did we discover a deeper underlying truth? Or in fact, have we in a sense deluded ourselves? And then further to the point, if in fact we discovered a deeper underlying truth that really there is no truth that we can discern, what does that say about our need for mythology? And can we erect myths and live by them knowing this deeper truth? Because this is the, this then brings us all the way back to some of the fundamental sort of foundational issues with the Enlightenment and the death of God. And our attempt to, in a sense, construct a society very much along the lines of communist Russia, highly scientific, but full of so many contradictions. And (39/57)
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