"Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others."

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

I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.

What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.

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

Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.

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