If the concept of consciousness were to fall to science, what would happen to our sense of moral agency and free will? If conscious experience were reduced somehow to mere matter in motion, what would happen to our appreciation of love and pain and dreams and joy? If conscious human beings were just animated material objects, how could anything we do to them be right or wrong?

If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.

Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.

If nobody cares, then it doesn't matter what happens to flowers.

A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.

Postmodernism, the school of 'thought' that proclaimed 'There are no truths, only interpretations' has largely played itself out in absurdity, but it has left behind a generation of academics in the humanities disabled by their distrust of the very idea of truth and their disrespect for evidence, settling for 'conversations' in which nobody is wrong and nothing can be confirmed, only asserted with whatever style you can muster.

Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.