Was not the arbitrary distinction between illusion and reality the ultimate illusion itself? - Norman Spinrad

Beneath all this gaiety and baroque complexity lay the simple and so carefully denied: beyond the thin metal surrounding us was the endless humorless void. Hollow rings the laughter of orphans in the night.

Social morality requires a shared matrix of communal reality to which to relate thought and deed, and the illusion of an objective ethical esthetic requires at the very least the conviction that objective reality is more than a contradiction in terms.

What moral obligation do you have to those who willfully refuse to open their eyes and deem you mad for seeing?