and brownback let the sewer man know that what he was doing was a boon unto civilization and a catapulting stone into human progress , and this finally trapped the sewer mans attention and the man from the sewers asked why this was , and the brownback told him that a man greater than they both thought cooked meat was the golden road to cultural idiocy and societal decay , and that the only way to extricate oneself from the ravaging of society was to remain obstinately silent and eat raw meat .