"For anything but the broadest statements: love good, hate bad. Everyone begins with a similar junk pile and has to build a city, but everyone goes about it rather differently. I suppose you might manage the trick for one person, but not for a mass. And it wouldn’t last. The duckshit hypothesis is in fact the correct one. Our minds are not marble sculptures, they’re a campfire boiling a couple of pints of mud in a bone bucket. In any case...Well, enticing though it is, that cannot possibly be what you came here to ask."