Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.
History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.
Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
We live in our myths, we only endure reality.
Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.