For now men became the playthings of ideas, they became stupid. They believe they are free to choose, but that which they choose has been preordained for them. The nations are now merely the toys of their ideas and the objects of their means...
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...They will never seem more slavelike than now; never more possessed nor more alienated, and the profound cynics who lead them are no less stupid than their ruminating subjects.
~ Albert Caraco, Handbook of Chaos