Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the considerable risk of trying to force facts to fit our definition of reality...

…The world’s benefactor has no choice; he is the surgeon who wields the healing scalpel. He does not want the violence, but the reality (which he has invented) drives him to use violence, in a...

The ideological premise, however, “can” not be defective; it is sacrosanct. … Whatever does not seem right, whatever does not fit, must be explained by something wrong outside of the ideology; for its perfection is...