“ The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it. ”
There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
~ Frank Herbert
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.
