One liner

I have just been reading a number of articles for my Robots class (yes, Robots!), and I was struck by this line from Duncan Kennedy:

"I think their answers to questions like those I have been addressing are just made up out of whole cloth to....scratch the itch of existential dread before the unknowableness of the most important things in life."*

Like, wow. I totally know how that feels, and I think it beautifully puts words to the unease of my current state of mind.


*"Toward A Critical Phenomenology of Judging" in Allan C. Hutchison and Patrick Monahan eds., The Rule of Law:Ideal or Ideology (Toronto: Carswell, 1987).