WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.380 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.380 --> 00:00:07.262 align:middle line:84% "Had you been so adept through a series of polished hoops?" 00:00:07.262 --> 00:00:09.720 align:middle line:84% That reminds me of something that happened in class earlier 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:10.220 align:middle line:90% today. 00:00:10.220 --> 00:00:13.530 align:middle line:84% We were talking about running through hoops, the 10 of you 00:00:13.530 --> 00:00:16.050 align:middle line:90% that were there, 15. 00:00:16.050 --> 00:00:20.040 align:middle line:84% "Had you been so adept through a series of polished hoops? 00:00:20.040 --> 00:00:24.810 align:middle line:84% All of your training amounting to this, countless titles 00:00:24.810 --> 00:00:29.910 align:middle line:84% and certificates affixed to a wall, that sort of thing, 00:00:29.910 --> 00:00:33.030 align:middle line:84% halos you couldn't pass through now. 00:00:33.030 --> 00:00:38.640 align:middle line:84% Some said you were at the doctor, but were you patient? 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:41.640 align:middle line:84% This was the start of many confusions, 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:46.950 align:middle line:84% working out salvation by the sweat of your furrowed brow, 00:00:46.950 --> 00:00:51.750 align:middle line:84% the shape of your body afflicted with what it was, 00:00:51.750 --> 00:00:55.650 align:middle line:84% what you were becoming all along. 00:00:55.650 --> 00:00:59.460 align:middle line:84% Could regimens really keep the future at bay? 00:00:59.460 --> 00:01:05.880 align:middle line:84% Suffering, death, et cetera, all of the usual calamities 00:01:05.880 --> 00:01:09.180 align:middle line:90% that kept you employed. 00:01:09.180 --> 00:01:13.710 align:middle line:84% Congress with whomever sought your care now 00:01:13.710 --> 00:01:18.810 align:middle line:84% left benighted on pastures where you at once put out." 00:01:18.810 --> 00:01:22.460 align:middle line:90% [RINGS BELL]