This confrontation with thought and power reminds me of an old saying: “You can never win an argument with y our father.”  One may, however, some day tell him to piss off.  Such table talk is about power, and whatever proposition was offered to draw a fight, it was put there for kicking around and, perhaps, baiting the more gentle soul for a satisfying kicking around too, altogether a verbal manner and scheme expressive of an aggressive, cruel, damaged, and sadistic temperament.