the result of highly personal and petty disputes between men

 “Yes, metaphysical, fable-making, Platonizing, crude, designed to make us believe in the existence of a principle of cohesion that directs the course of History, a ratio, when in truth everything that has happened up until now has been the result of highly personal and petty disputes between men; of their scientific passions, of their fierce rhetorical slander, of their discussions full of hatred, desire for power, for knowledge and vows of revenge, always resumed step by step, according to the accidents along the way that imposed such selfishness on them. This is where the metaphysical exaggeration makes its appearance, to trick us about a past where the precious essentiality of things was once intact, and which must be ‘restored’; to infatuate us with the chatter of a discourse that erases every accident in order, in the pretentious error of its simplifications, to make emerge an image of a ‘path to be followed’, if not that of an incarnate guide himself, who comes to us like the eyepatch of a mule eternally tied to the cart of linear time --- according to Foucault: ‘no delay in the meticulousness of the derisory wickedness of our beginnings here, only masks over unexcavated ruins’ ‘’ , she said.