Don’t you know we’re all made of the same stuff? None of us is as reasonable as we think we are. Haven’t you ever longed to kick someone’s behind and just MAKE them do what you can see is the right thing?” - from “Instant Wisdom” by G.C. Campbell. ***** What kind of answers do you think you would get if you asked people “What’s the single most disastrous thing that could happen to our civilisation?” Nuclear war? Global warming? Earthquakes? Plague, perhaps? They seem like fair enough guesses, but they’re all wrong. The answer is something worse, something no mad scientist or evil magician could have dreamed up; a disaster so bizarre and subtle that the victims will suppose themselves to be the survivors. Allow me to introduce you to someone who thinks he is an expert on this.
