As the German philosopher Immanuel Kant once asked: “what the fuck is happening to us right now?”
It’s an admittedly modern translation from the German in which Critique of Pure Reason was originally written. A more traditional translator might have instead written: “what do we know and how do we know it? How do we know that we know it? Is it even possible to know anything?”
What follows is an interpretation of Kant that will surely incense any philosophers that happen to be reading. I ask that they refrain from yelling at me, as I might not know anything about philosophy but I’m pretty sure that they don’t either.