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.

Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.

Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think.

Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.

The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists euphemistically call socialization.

Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.