If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope? - Richard Rorty

[A]nything can be made to look good or bad by being redescribed.

As long as we try to project from the relative and conditioned to the absolute and unconditioned, we shall keep the pendulum swinging between dogmatism and skepticism. The only way to stop this increasingly tiresome pendulum swing is to change our conception of what philosophy is good for. But that is not something which will be accomplished by a few neat arguments. It will be accomplished, if it ever is, by a long, slow process of cultural change – that is to say, of change in common sense, changes in the intuitions available for being pumped up by philosophical arguments.

My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have … "an ambition of transcendence."