'86: How I Failed Ethics (86：我如何丧失道德) - The Magnetic Fields Written by：Stephin Merritt Though majoring in visual and environmental studies And minoring in history of sci
I had to retake ethics from my Mennonite professor For whom my skepticism didn't fly
The first time I made mincemeat of the standard propositions Establishing a so called moral science
And I declared morality an offshoot of aesthetics And got a failing c for my defiance
So next semester I back to divinity school trotted Proverbial tail not between my legs
And spent the whole course positing my own ethical system While other college students emptied kegs
Information ethics cyberethics both since taken Said maximize the information flow
Toward a hypothetical end state in which the cosmos Consists entirely of our info
And at the highest level possible not only data But data about data dot dot dot
Or life on top of life on top of life et cetera
Profundity my mother'd say I'd not
My Mennonite professor did concede I'd done the coursework Although my system left him quite dismayed
Depending as it did on neither history nor Jahweh And gave me finally a passing grade
