Magritte on the Old Question

Who are we, really?

Beck-Ola Extruded. Illustration created by the author. Album cover, public domain.

The age-old question, “Who are we?” is given a disappointing answer in the world in which we have to live.

We are, indeed, no more than the subjects of this so-called civilized world, in which intelligence, depravity, heroism and stupidity jog along happily together, and are extremely topical.