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

[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote my first historical novel---back in 1980, before I was online---I used them often as a research tool. For instance, I learned that the Bastille was either 90 feet high or 100 feet or 120 feet. This led me to formulate Wilson's 22nd Law: 'Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.'

Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons

It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep.

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

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.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.