OBDURATE

our past sins stand adamant in the currents of perpetual revisionism. ablutions and 10000 hail marys will not erase our collective history. blindfolds aside, the truth remains withered and without form. substance lacking, we give no teeth to justice and wimper over our comfort bread.
without resolution and penance, we are doomed to the negligent collapse of the simplicity of well-being. all is for naught if we have no future.

“obdurate conscience of the old sinner”
(Sir Walter Scott).

[Middle English obdurat, from Late Latin obdrtus, past participle of obdrre, to harden, from Latin, to be hard, endure : ob-, intensive pref.; see ob- + drus, hard; see deru- in Indo-European Roots.]