It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense

It's easy to win. Anybody can win.

I have seen myself backward.

Any system which says, This is a rotten world, wait for the next, give up, do nothing, succumb--that may be the basic Lie and if we participate in believing it and acting (or rather not acting) on it we involve ourselves in the Lie and suffer dreadfully... which only reinforces that particular Lie.

Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.

I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine

I will never fully understand; that is the nature of such creatures. Or is this Inner Truth now, this that is happening to me? I will wait. I will see. Which it is. Perhaps it is both.