What separates us into engineers and robots, puppeteers and puppets, kings and pawns, is not the status we hold at any given time among others - status is irrelevant; it is the level of ever-present awareness we have of a grey-matter tailor's tools [of flattery, persuasion, and cunning.]

~ A.j. Darkholme

A.j. Darkholme Awareness Charm Cunning Engineers Flattery Grey Matter Tailor Influence Kings Manipulation Mass Influence Others Pawns People Perspective Persuasion Puppeteers Puppets Queens Robots Self Awareness Separation Status

It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.

~ Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons Masters Obeying Puppeteers