Miroslav Krleža

"At night, during intimate, half-loud conversations to myself, I have been unable to really logically justify why I have lately been so upset because of human stupidity. If others' stupidity were as unpleasant as own toothache, well, this could be somehow explained: rotten teeth spoil the mood, toothache renders you sleepless. But this?
- What do you mean 'this?'
- It's like this: everything in life is governed by deeper laws of nature which science has lately termed as 'natural laws:' why, for instance, buttered bread always falls on the side with butter? Coincidence? No! Law. A law of universe. Or: why does locomotive smoke always bend to the side where one is watching outside from a speeding train? These are, you see, questions to which there are no answers, because these are quite unclear problems, one could even say they are inexplicable, while human mind is sadly helpless, so if one gets winded about human stupidity, the case is he is probably not endowed himself. One needs not belong to cruel, half-literate "thinkers" who "think" the notion of rain is more materialist than the notion of god, and when they conceitedly - one could even say, with pathos - declare rain is merely rain i.e. that rain is no other thing than it is, meaning - "rain" i.e. that rain is a natural phenomenon and no god's rain - once this happens, one cannot utter a single wise word from the noise of this free-minded cockledoo, as if this transfer of rain into "natural phenomena" solved the last open question of the human mind since the first rain till today. Try saying to this "free thinker" that you are not clear about the notion of non-theological rain, and that you personally do not really believe in celestial water pumps of god's origin, but that you neverthelss prefer walking in rain to empty reasoning over others, this gentleman inquisitor will next slit your throat in name of "free thought," just as he slit it yesterday in name of some other imperative.."

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