importance is important but meaning is meaningful here we are at the crux of the matter for both meaning and importance are also human-formed so it would seem that nothing is important or meaningful if importance and meaning are of themselves only products of the fallible human intellect but here is the great secret so is the fallibility of the human intellect a mere product of the fallible human intellect the question here arises is anything real and not a mere invention of a mistaken human mind by real of course i mean that which is on its own terms that is without any modification on the part of mankind by observing it but such a thing is impossible to be known for if it be known it has certainly been observed by someone and so it is not on its own terms but on the terms of the observer so it cannot be known if anything exists on its own terms for it exists on its own terms we certainly will not know anything about it by this it is possible to see that nothing is knowable without the mediating factor of our mind fucking up the raw the real world but by this time it would seem that this chapter is far far too philosophical not to mention pretentious so i must try again