Byford explains: My first task is to maintain a good state of repair. Attend to the basics. The unsexy stuff - the tracks, the drains, things that don't involve a ribbon-cutting. ….

Only after he had ceased dreaming of them and thrown off his crushing burden of transcendental morality – only thus and then could he hope to rise out of the slough of despond in which he wallowed.

Nevertheless, if significant ritual and social action (karman) leads to rebirth and hence redeath, then for some at least it appears that all such actions become suspect.

…logically indistinguishable from the argument that because we do not know at what rate the angels dancing on the head of a pin are dying off…