The Castles

Many brave knights, bound by allegiance to Truth, tried to storm that great edifice, the Castle of Stupidity & Falseness. However, all efforts have predictably floundered as stupidity and falseness are their own defence, against which truth is powerless. Needles to say, the inhabitants were convinced the often insanely convoluted edifices of their stupidity were the most profound of human formulations, and proof of their progressive genius.

Our devoted knights met with similar results at the close ally of the Castle of Stupidity- the Castle of Misery. These benevolent assailants imagined they would be greeted joyfully as they liberated the inhabitants of Misery from their walled domain, but no. The inhabitants had poured themselves into their bitterness, and in it lay their very existence. He who threatened to take it away was a liar, a denier of the very ground of reality. The inhabitants sneered at the knights, accused them of vapidity and laughed at their promise of a kingdom of profundity and love. They had the best of reasons justifying their unhappiness and ignorance. "This is existence. We have tasted it, it is real." The very existence of their misery was its own proof as the substance of existence, and to say otherwise pure escapism.

Eventually and reluctantly the knights of glowing countenance moved on once it became fully clear that their efforts were wasted, and that they were themselves beginning to be infected by the unhappy malaise. Though they were pleased to find the odd inhabitant of the castle join their number, their desertion attended to by howls of derision from the most loyal.