...the second result of feeling that we are separate minds in an alien, and mostly stupid, universe is that we have no common sense, no way of making sense of the world upon which we are agreed in common. It’s just my opinion against yours, and therefore the most aggressive and violent (an thus insensitive) propagandist make the decisions. A muddle of conflicting opinions united by force of propaganda is the worst possible source of control for a powerful technology….

---alan watts: the book--