Ludwig Wittgenstein in Obamaland.

The sense of the world must lie outside the world.

In the world everything is as it is,

and everything happens as it does happen:

in it no value exists--and if it did exist, it would have no value.

If there is any value that does have value, it must lie

outside the whole sphere of what happens and is the case.

For all that happens and is the case is accidental.

What makes it non-accidental cannot lie within the world,

since if it did it would itself be accidental.

It must lie outside the world.