part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.

Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude: it can only say, "This model"- or theory, or interpretation of the data- "fits more of the facts known at this date than any rival model." We can never know if the model will fit the facts that might come to light in the next millennium or even in the next week.

O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?

Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once.

The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.