The Fourteen-Legged Philosophy Machine

Who are you when you’re with them, your philosophers? Where do you fit in, in the pack? Are you the alpha male? The beta one? Are you in the inner in group? Or are you all the way down the hierarchy? Are you the lowest of all? The butt of all jokes. I can’t tell, philosopher. I’ve no idea of what your role is in the fourteen-legged philosophy machine …