"Yes, there is a conspiracy, indeed there are a great number of conspiracies, all tripping each other up ... the main thing that I learned about conspiracy theories is that conspiracy theorists actually believe in the conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is chaotic. The truth is, no-one is in control, the world is rudderless."

"The problem is not that people are uneducated. The problem is that they are educated just enough to believe what they've been taught. And not educated enough to question what they've been taught."

"Intellectual life was enormously affected by an understandable revulsion to Nazisim, with it's pseudoscientific theories of race and it's equally nonsensical glorification of conflict as part of the evolutionary wisdom of nature."

"There is no good and evil. There is only power, and those who are too weak to seek it."

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