Astrology fell into the class of a <i>fake lie</i>...and not worth the efforts of the debunking engine Cicero had been born with in place of a brain.… - Jonathan Lethem

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Astrology fell into the class of a fake lie...and not worth the efforts of the debunking engine Cicero had been born with in place of a brain. Cicero's capacities were reserved for lies that mattered. Ideology, though that word was yet unknown to him: the veil of sustaining fiction that drove the world, what people needed to believe. This, Cicero wished to unmask and unmake, decry and destroy. (p. 65)