"Our Flag is tattered, and has a zero on it, and we will neither fight for nor salute it. Still, it's our flag, and to it will we pledge allegiance, because it stands for our belief in nothing, and the fealty to futility that entails. Oh God, let us believe that everything we believe is probably wrong, and that everything we think we know we don't, and that every act we take is a zero in the universal mathematics of nullity. Give us the strength to weaken, the courage to chicken out, and the conviction to remain forever unconvinced. Let us fall by the wayside, let us doubt, let us throw up our hands in abject surrender. Give us this day, O Lord, and we swear to God we'll do nothing with it."

[unremitting failure winning]