“Our lives are short and we search for meaning. When we find none, we create it. If we agree with each other, our meanings become dogma, and when we disagree then we become enemies and fight, or sit at a distance in an attempt at tolerance. It is the rare person who can stand aside and observe that our minds and identities are largely constructs of our social order, that we are abstract and arbitrary collections of ideas that resemble dusty archives in the galleries of a museum, visited by nobody, and maintained by a series of those insensible robots that are our habits. We live by our own agreement inside these miserable prisons that are our selves, and suffer the results ... Our minds are full of confusion and conflicts from which we separate only with the greatest difficulty, and for short periods.”
TwoPi - Natural History by Justina Robson
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