I've spent my life observing    and then pondering this place    and never has confusion ever ceased    I've also heard a lot of exaltation for our kind    and sanctimonious reverence for peace    The stories from our childhood    condition us to think    that beauty is a basic human trait    but how are they reconciled with daily realities    like poverty and dominance and rape       But you have to be    stone cold dead not to see    overwhelming incongruity    as we search for suggestions to remedy...       ...Mediocrity       If you just sit back and record what you see    the tragic and exquisite are the same to some degree    but most events depict a common theme:    there's far more disorder    than there is harmony       I said you've got to be    stone cold dead not to see    overwhelming incongruity    It is pointless to search for teleology       Mediocrity    (always mediocrity)