Exists, doesn't exist, what's it got to do with the price of turnips basically.
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"Exists, doesn't exist"
Whether something exists or doesn't exist would seem really important when you get right down to it. But Merle acts rather casually about it and I get it. I once dropped out of a philosophy class in college because my attitude was pretty much this. It felt like everybody in class just believed philosophy was throwing up a new roadblock to anybody else's suggestion on whatever subject was being discussed. It was fucking tiresome. I was just kind of like, "Fine, y'all argue about whether or not what we see is real. I'm going to go get laid. Maybe that won't be real but, man, I'm going to enjoy the hell out of whatever it is!"
"price of turnips"
I guess at some point in Irish history, turnips were so important that if you tried to talk about anything else, people would say, "The head on you and the price of turnips," meaning, well, I don't fucking know what it means. But I guess the price of turnips (and the price of cabbages) was meant to represent some fact that actually matters to the lives of everyday people who don't have the time or luxury to mess with all of this universal hoodoo about natural physical laws and whatnot. So Merle is just pointing out that whether or not Æther exists doesn't mean much to the lives of most people.
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