More from The Aesthetics of Survival, from “My Dear Igor (An Imaginary Dialogue)”:
Strav: It seems to me, Herr Schoenberg, you make everything so complicated. You are psychologizing and I have no taste for psychology. To me, the world is ordered according to the immutable laws of the Supreme Creator, laws that are absolute. Absolute values make it unecessary for us to search further for the truth. They precondition our lives and our relation to all things. Since this is so, I have always found it unnecessary to search beyond what is already given.
Ouch.