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I think, like almost everything, the Koans are a reflection on the society and the way of thinking at the time of writing. In what is now peacefuller times people would be aghast that someone would do that. I dug around through a few, and a lot of them feel a bit too meta for me, though I did find the Hello World Koan to be an interesting discussion on our flippancy with code: http://thecodelesscode.com/case/14