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

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

Each mans spills the drink he loves.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

To me, it doesn't matter if your scapegoats are the Jews, the homosexuals, the male sex, the Masons, the Jesuits, the Welfare Parasites, the Power Elite, the female sex, the vegetarians, or the Communist Party. To the extent that you need a scapegoat, you simply have not got your brain programmed to work as an efficient problem-solving machine.

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

We can't run out of resources. Resources exist when the human mind sees how to use something.