The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
William S. BurroughsThe more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain.
William S. BurroughsThe program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and optimistic. No species could survive for even a generation under such program. This is not a program of eternal, or even long-range dominance. It is clearly an extermination program.
William S. Burroughs