we have brought about a picture of reality that is mendacious, and stemming from that, a blind society, where people are convinced that they know the nature of the reality they inhabit, whereas they are completely misguided, for they are wrong on both counts, on the one hand they haven't the least notion of what reality is like, and, on the other hand, their conviction that they do know what this reality is like is disastrous

lászló krasznahorkai, spadework for a palace