In any event,I think in the end it's maybe best to keep your doubts private. Saying them aloud cheapens them--make them a bunch of words just like everybody else's bunch of words.
And even if you decided to fight the evil, to attain goodness or religious ecstasy, not much really changes. You're still stuck being you, and you was pretty much decided long before you started asking these questions. Maybe clones are the way out of all of this. And as a clone, you pop off the assembly line with an owner's manual writen by the previous you--a manual as helpful as the one that accompanies a 1999 VW Jetta. Imagine all the crap this would save you--the wasted time, the hopeless dreams.
If I've learned anyting in 29 years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70% of his or her radar.
The conventional wisdom is true as regards faces: by midadulthood, what's inside you becomes what people see on the outside. Car thieves look like car thieves, cheats look like cheats, and calm, reflective poeple look calm and reflective. So be careful.
---From "Hey Nostradamus!" by Douglas Coupland
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