The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.
Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.
Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.
A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.
I write with teenagers in mind.
In the end, living is defined by dying. Book-ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end. Fear is ever-present, waiting to be called to the surface. Change brought fear, and fear brought destruction.