"Is", "is." "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.
-Robert Anton Wilson
Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game.
The American voter, insisting upon his belief in a higher order, clings to his religion, which promises another, betterlife; and defends passionately the illusion that the men he chooses to lead him are of finer nature than he.
- Joe McGinniss, The Selling of the President
All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
-Robert Anton Wilson
Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game.
The American voter, insisting upon his belief in a higher order, clings to his religion, which promises another, betterlife; and defends passionately the illusion that the men he chooses to lead him are of finer nature than he.
- Joe McGinniss, The Selling of the President
All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World