Welcome to the dream of hope known as this book. The purpose of this introduction is to reinforce this promise of the dream of hope and to outline its parameters.

In this book everything will be revealed fully yet concisely. A clear superstructure will be set forth and all elements of knowledge will be firmly positioned within that superstructure so as to maximally reveal the nature of the interrelations between ALL elements and between all possible sets of elements and the whole.

When this structure is complete, all nagging questions of ontology and phenomenology will have been answered and epistemology will no longer be an issue, the word and concept fading from individual memory and group culture in lockstep with the thing-itself fading from reality at-large.

However, if you go ahead and read this book and are halfway through and suddenly start to get all pissed cause you think nothing's been said, nothing revealed and nothing's clear -- and that most likely nothing ever WILL be said, revealed or made clear -- about anything! -- well, YOU SHOULDN'T JUST GIVE UP ON THE DREAM LIKE THAT SO SOON, YOU FUCKING LOSER!!

If, however, you reach the end of this book and STILL feel that way, well, then, "Sorry!" But look -- see, NOBODY can deliver on what we promise. Right? That's just the way it is. So if everybody was just gonna be honest about it, then no book would EVER offer what we're offering and the possibility of this perfection would drop from sight, the idea would drop from sight, and everybody would just forget about it.

So what we're really doing by lying out our ass about what this book has to offer, is -- we're keeping the dream alive!

Because, if we don't keep it alive this time, or if we DO but some other overly honest asshole DOESN'T the next time, or if she DOES but the asshole after her DOESN'T, or the asshole after him or the asshole after her, and so on and so on -- then we will permanently lose the dream of hope -- and without the dream of hope... without the dream of hope... without the dream of hope... then... you know... like... what else will there be for us to kill off in some distant future, as a stalling tactic to get one more week or year of hopeless days before we finally have to kill off ourselves?

Happy reading!!

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