Every morning I have been looking at CNN to see if there is any reason for hope. I see a few large and impressive peace protests here and there around the world, but mostly I see empty robot faces monotonously reciting the magic incantations, "We must support the President" and "We must support our troops," both of which mean the killing must continue.

Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.

I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.

We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch.

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

Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics, to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics, ideology, jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory.

The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.