1) For answering to your first question, other than saying we are all poor creatures, having the common disgrace of living in this Valley of Sorrow, experiencing how limited it is and how much it differs from what we, miserable, little, meaningless beings, are used to desire in our bold, arrogant dreams, the best thing I can do is giving here a definition of the adjective
"miserable" as we can find it on the Online Oxford Dictionary:
2) No, it couldn't.
But, also in this case, since it's a sad, common feature for us all, human beings, experiencing the limits of our liberty of doing what we would like to do and what we could do, once again, I've decided to offer here the interesting definition of the adjective
"illiberal" from Oxford Dictionary:
I offer you two definitions coming from your language, use them as you like. To you the final interpretation of what I've tried to say in my deprecable English.
As final note: even if wulfgar is no more attending this place (wherever you are: VALE old chap!), I just like to add that I changed my mind about Cathars (
"The pure ones") and their complex spiritual world, so, now I'm in favour of an extended use of the
hermeneutic circle for interpreting texts and written sources, since in it, we can hope to find the actual, real keys to disclose the final truth about human condition.